Pleasant Grove always seemed like a nice enough place. After all, it is called the
City of Trees and it is P.G. that hosts the quaint Strawberry Festival every year. I've actually been meaning to go there for some time to visit
Patina's and get a pink donut from Daylight's, but that becomes less appetizing as the days pass. You see on my forty five minute drive to school, I pass through P.G. At first my thoughts were, I need to go check that place out! There is nothing I love more than finding the hidden treasures in a small town. Just ask Rory about my love for
Kearny, Nebraska. I adore it. Well, after a week of driving by P.G., planning my weekend visit, I noticed a terrible stench. An overpowering, putrid stench that has remained in P.G. for at least two weeks now. It's as if a sewage pipe exploded, but nobody noticed. So I took the liberty to write the P.G. Chamber of Commerce a little note. It went like this.
To whom
it may concern:
I have been interested in paying a visit to your town for some town. However, the town seems to be suffering from some sort of sewage problem. It makes Pleasant Grove seem very
unpleasant. Will this situation be remedied in the near future?
Cordially,
Lauren
Until I get a letter of response I will be wearing a clothespin on my nose and buying a brand new air freshener.
Dear Lauren,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I have had the same sad experience. I hate driving through that area on the highway.
I always thought, "Hmm there must be some farms nearby here..." After hearing rumors about the problem and doing a little googling of my own, I have discovered a sad truth. I have to break the bad news to you. It is Pleasant Grove's own "Wastewater Treatment Plant" you smell. Yup, unfortunately it's not animal poo: it's human sewage.
Now I feel sorry for us passersby, but what about those poor people who live there?!
Sadly,
Al
Yes. I pass it too. Everyday. It is so unpleasant.
ReplyDeleteMy brother and his family lived there and I hated visiting them because i literally had to run from the car to their house with my nose plugged. Alarie is right, they have an open air sewage treatment plant. who's idea that was i'll never know but they should be shot.
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