Dubai International City Smells Awful!!!!!

[vishal73]

Hi,

I dont know about others. But in my apartment this is not the type of A/C Thermostat that they have used. Even I have seen many apts but didn't seen that kind of thermostat.

Anyway, Joe In which cluster R U staying?

[dadruid]

Yes, even our cluster, the panel is a bit different. Dunno if its just in our area, or the whole of IC, but this smell has been perpetual for the past week or so. Its getting unbearable these days and i wonder how v r going to survive this winter. Is there something all v people in this forum can do?? Am going 2 send letters to 7 days (i know lots of such letters have been sent previously) and appeal to the govt to help us. Hope something happens!!!!

[Ginger]

I have called Nakheel, they said there isn't anything they can do right now, it is an old issue, and the factory is being transferred, and the new one is in the final stage of completion...

But in the meantime, what r we gonna all do! Shall we make a list and all sign up and go to Municipality (I know people did that before with no result!)? Shall we all put our signatures on your letter to 7Days? It's not the first time 7 days writes about it...

What amazes me the most that in a country where everything grows so fast they cannot transfer the plant for quite a long time. Noone is interested?

Another question: why does it smell only in the evenings or nighttime? Is is specially done for all those authorities coming to inspect not to notice anything? Is it for those poor people renting and buying in IC so they realize they've been deceived later on? Thats what happened with me...

Maybe we can somehow unite together and do something.
Suggestions?

[ksu-joe]

Originally Posted by Ginger

I have called Nakheel, they said there isn't anything they can do right now, it is an old issue, and the factory is being transferred, and the new one is in the final stage of completion...

But in the meantime, what r we gonna all do! Shall we make a list and all sign up and go to Municipality (I know people did that before with no result!)? Shall we all put our signatures on your letter to 7Days? It's not the first time 7 days writes about it...

What amazes me the most that in a country where everything grows so fast they cannot transfer the plant for quite a long time. Noone is interested?

Another question: why does it smell only in the evenings or nighttime? Is is specially done for all those authorities coming to inspect not to notice anything? Is it for those poor people renting and buying in IC so they realize they've been deceived later on? Thats what happened with me...

Maybe we can somehow unite together and do something.
Suggestions?

Did they said the date when they'll relocated that SF?

I also can not understand one thing - what all that garbage can not be covered, they definatelly could use cables and not to keep it open just 1 km distance from residential community...

The last 4 days (especially weekend) that's just imposible.

BTW who said it's not bad for health? It's poisoned air!

[wayneis]

Your correct the media have all run articles, examples on page one of this thread from Gulf News and page 2 of this thread from Emirates Today paper.

Keeping the topic in the media is one stratergy as Nakheel have not given this issue a high priority evidenced by the facts that this problem has been known for many years and more so at the development stage!

[ksu-joe]

Hi, guys,

Well, I called today to Nakheel and spoke to one of their castomer care executives...
First he pretended that he does not know about the smell than said that yea they recieved complains about that and that munisipality is planning to reallocated the SF somewhere towards jebel Ali (so they'll have fun in there:-))
He said it'll take "a couple of years" as it's a big SF.

So now at least we know that it's not going to happen soon...

I have an idea, it's not the best one but still if we could get the exact hours when SF start smell then at least it's possible to plan when to be at home or to go somewhere on Jumaira beach...let's say to be prepared.

Any Idea how we could get that info?

Cheers

[Mikeyv]

I Love dubai, i hope everyone who has property thier reaps the rewards

[Ginger]

I wrote to 7 Days. There is nothing there yet. If you receive this newpaper regularly, please inform me if it'd be published - I don't receive it myself.
Mr. Ksu-Joe, thanks for your advice, it is a little better now with internal circulation.

As you noticed, the smell comes in the evenings, yesterday it was about 9ish PM for instance. There is another time - 3.30-4 AM too. I think it has something to do with the earth getting cooler so the direction of wind changes...

[ksu-joe]

Originally Posted by Ginger

I wrote to 7 Days. There is nothing there yet. If you receive this newpaper regularly, please inform me if it'd be published - I don't receive it myself.
Mr. Ksu-Joe, thanks for your advice, it is a little better now with internal circulation.

As you noticed, the smell comes in the evenings, yesterday it was about 9ish PM for instance. There is another time - 3.30-4 AM too. I think it has something to do with the earth getting cooler so the direction of wind changes...

You know Ginger, I think it depends more on the cleaning stages insite the Plant then from the wind.

I recently read the article which describes the those stages. See below:

Plant/Process Description:
First stage is mechanical treatment which consists of seven screens followed by grit removal. Pre-aeration tanks and then the primary settling tanks. The effluent then passes through the aeration tanks where only BOD is removed. The ammonia is treated with biological filters followed by the tertiary settling tanks. After sand filters the effluent is chlorinated and supplied to the city for horticulture irrigation. The primary and the biological stage sludge is thickened with polymer and fed to the anaerobic digesters. The anaerobically digested sludge is dewatered with centrifuges and sent for thermal drying and windrow drying. The dried product is used for horticulture by the city and the general public.

So I guess depending on the cleaning procedures the smell type is changing as well as the strength of it.

I wrote an email to people in there yesterday to get the "smelly hours" .

I just wanna get an idea and then to find the solution...as I'm sick and tired it.

I'll check 7 days today and let you know.

Cheers

[Barman]

I'm dealing with construction. On last Thursday I went to a company in Jebel Ali to demonstrate our program. It was a large area full of nothing but some machines did excavation. I asked the guy about their project. He replied this will be a sewage treatment plant!! I was interested about duration of job to be complete. The guy : 3 years!!!! And according to my experience when a contractor says 3 years you must know not sooner than 5 years!!
I'm surprised. They didn't do any thing so far and they say it's in final stages!
It used to be 1 or 2 nights at night but for the past 2 weeks every night we have this problem starting at about 10 PM till 3 or 4 AM.
I bought some piece of woods called OUD in Arabic, when you burn them they give some good smells. You can find them in Careefur in Shishah segment. But they are not recommended for people have migrane.