‘We’re gonna be known as that stinky city’: Anger grows in Carson, Calif., as noxious smell sickens residents
CARSON, Calif. — When Otilia Marquez drives through Carson with her mom and little sister, the air stinks so much that one of them always jokes: “Who farted? Who didn’t take a shower? Put your shoes back on!”
One afternoon, Marquez’s sister whipped out a can of Febreze, stuck it out the open car window and gave a spray. At home, Marquez has been burning black cherry-scented candles, trying in vain to beat back the stench.
“It’s like we’re gonna be known as that stinky city now, and I don’t want that,” said Marquez, 27, who has lived in Carson her entire life.
For nearly two weeks, an overpowering foul smell — likened to rotten eggs, a dead body and poop — has been wafting from the Dominguez Channel, which spills into Los Angeles Harbor.
The stink has been the butt of plenty of online jokes: “If you can’t smell the air in Carson
