MOORESVILLE People in Mooresville are plugging their noses because of a persistently stinky situation from the town's wastewater treatment plant. The town is still figuring out how to stop the smell.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management investigated White Lick Creek and the Martinsville Wastewater Treatment Plant on Nov. 12 at the urging of plant superintendent Calvin Boultbee. IDEM's investigation found "obvious signs of solids being discharged into the receiving stream."

The IDEM investigation further explained that the odor "appears to be due to ongoing high-strength industrial wastestreams received."

Neighbors who live downstream from the treatment plant say they are sick of smelling sewage in the morning.

"I would describe it as an open sewer," said Gene Deverick, wh

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