What's That Smell?

What's that smell in Newark, NJ?

Smelling something strange around Newark? This is what's mapped nearby: facilities of types commonly associated with noticeable odors, EPA contaminated-land records, and a live map with wind conditions — free, no account, no ads in the app.

604odor-relevant facilities mapped within 15 miles
592EPA Superfund & brownfield listings
Fertilizer / Chemicalmost common facility type here
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What could that smell be?

Facility type near NewarkMapped
Fertilizer / Chemical
Commonly reported odors include ammonia, sulfur, and sharp chemical or solvent-like smells.
293
Wastewater Treatment
Commonly reported odors include sewage, sulfur / rotten egg, and earthy septic smells, often strongest in warm weather.
110
Refinery / Asphalt
Commonly reported odors include petroleum, tar, and burnt-asphalt smells.
73
Waste / Landfill
Commonly reported odors include garbage, decay, and landfill gas (sulfur) smells that can travel with the wind.
68
Heavy Industry
Commonly reported odors include metallic, smoky, and burnt smells.
24
Rendering & Meat
Facilities of this type commonly produce heavy organic odors -- cooked animal by-product, grease, and sulfurous notes.
13
Paper Mill
Kraft pulping is famous for sulfurous 'rotten cabbage' odors that can carry for miles.
11
Food Processing
Odors range from roasting and fermentation to heavy cooking smells, depending on the product.
5
Farms / CAFOs
Livestock operations commonly produce manure and barnyard odors, strongest downwind.
4
Tannery / Leather
Hide processing commonly produces strong organic and sulfurous odors.
3
592 EPA contaminated-land listings
35 Superfund (NPL) · 312 Superfund site · 245 Brownfield
Superfund and brownfield records are contamination history, not odor sources.

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Listings come from public EPA records. A listing is not proof of a smell, and does not mean a site is currently unsafe or doing anything wrong. Odor descriptions are about facility categories in general, never about a specific business. A marker is context, not an accusation.