MARYSVILLE — Complaints about the odor in south Marysville and north Everett were submitted to the Everett City Council, as elected officials and citizens from Marysville and Tulalip converged to air their grievances.
Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring and Tulalip Tribal Chair Mel Sheldon Jr. stepped up to the podium together on April 20 to read from the letter they’d submitted to Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and his City Council.
In their letter, Nehring and Sheldon reiterated the concerns their citizens have expressed about the regional yard and food waste processing at the Cedar Grove composting facility located on Smith Island, within the Everett city limits, and asked that the Mayor and City Council of Everett do what they could to ensure that Cedar Grove complies with regulations designed to limit environmental impacts of its operations on surrounding areas.
Marysville resident Mike Davis, founder of Citizens for a Smell Free Snohomish County, followed Nehring and Sheldon by handing the Everett City Council a petition with more than 1,200 signatures from residents of Marysville, Everett and Lake Stevens, which were collected during a span of three weeks by no more than three volunteers. Davis and his fellow citizens believe that Cedar Grove’s Smith Island facility is the source of the smell, and their petition calls for “the company and the regulators who oversee them to stop the stench.”
