N.J. eyed as source of stench over NYC

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NEW YORK - The gas-like odor that hung over Manhattan's streets was gone Tuesday, but city officials were still trying to pinpoint its source — and eyeing New Jersey.

Charles Sturcken, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection, said Tuesday that his agency was pretty sure the source of the smell was along New Jersey's industrialized waterfront, just across the Hudson River from New York.

"The way we tracked the dispersion of the smell and the prevailing winds indicates that it came from New Jersey, somewhere near Secaucus," Sturcken said.

The strong odor, detectable from Manhattan's southern tip to well past Central Park, led to some precautionary evacuations, and about a dozen people were taken to hospitals complaining of difficulty breathing, Fire Department spokesman Tony Sclafani.

There was no indication that the air was unsafe, though, and no indication of terrorism, city and federal officials said.

Complaints about the odor also came from Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey, but no air sampling was done there because the state Department of Environmental Protection had no specific locations to test, spokeswoman Elaine Makatura said.

New Jersey Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson said Tuesday that her agency was reviewing Monday's emission records of plants in the area.

She said the area has some oil refineries — and that a natural gas pipeline problem could be a culprit.

"We may not be able to find it," she said.

Jackson bristled at New York officials' finger-pointing at her state, saying she wished that New York instead would help New Jersey look for the source. "It looks an awful lot like jumping to conclusions," she said.

Sturcken said that the odor could have been caused by mercaptan, the chemical added to normally odorless natural gas to make it easily detectable, but he added, "Nothing has been confirmed."

"We're left with a mystery, although we know it's not harmful," he said.

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Edited January 9, 2007 by charlesandnessa

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Are they sure it wasn't INTERNAL from NYC's general rot?

:lol:

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Man i didn't know my gas was really powerful enough to travel across through the jet stream the USA lol. No more Mexican food for me. lol

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joisey stinks and suxs

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joisey stinks and suxs

...as does NYC

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joisey stinks and suxs

...as does NYC

NYC is even worse..

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and mawilson has not been seen since

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joisey stinks and suxs

It seems you're not the only one who feels that way.

Exodus from New Jersey continues, mover's data show

New Jersey continued to be a good place to leave last year, according to an annual migration study released Monday by United Van Lines.

The review of United Van Lines' interstate moving business showed that 60.9 percent of the company's 10,259 interstate moves involving New Jersey were outgoing. In every year since 1997, the company has had more moves out of New Jersey than into it.

Nationally, New Jersey had the third-highest percentage of outgoing moves...

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Top gainer states included North Carolina, Oregon and South Carolina.

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James W. Hughes, a Rutgers University economist, said New Jersey continues to lose people because despite having incomes that average 33 percent higher than the nation as a whole, the state also has 52 percent higher housing costs.

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joisey stinks and suxs

...as does NYC

NYC is even worse..

as is the rest of NY state.

It would have been a cakewalk to find the stink-source if the stink had been in Buffalo--as the most obvious one would have been Pigtown (aka Toronto).