For years, residents of Concordia have complained about smells, from natural gas, to diesel exhaust, and even emissions from the airport. Until now, there hasn’t been an easy way to take action when you smell something noxious:
Announcing a new free app for reporting possible industrial air pollution incidents to Portland Clean Air!
Please help with this launch by downloading the app today and making a smell report- even if the smell report is positive.
Portland Clean Air has been working with Dr. Beatrice Dias from Carnegie Melon University, the developer of the app and Seventh Generation is helping to launch the app city wide.
The Smell MyCity app crowdsources community reports of pollution odors and visualizes our city’s air quality. Please help us with this launch by downloading the app today and making a smell report. Even if your report is an entirely positive one (which we all hope it is!) your report today will help us a lot on the receiving end. This is a better alternative than your complaints being ignored by DEQ or floating around Nextdoor. Portland Clean Air now has a toxic smell response team with monitoring equipment and the data from nine agencies to help pinpoint the source so Portland Clean Air can send in negotiators.
The Smell MyCity app is available on the App Store and on Google Play.
There is no fee to download the app – it’s free!
Click here for the iOS app
Click here for the Android app
The Smell MyCity website makes smell report data publicly accessible and easy for all residents and community groups to explore. You can visit the map visualization page to see how smell reports are distributed across the city over time. In addition, the data access page enables anyone to download smell report data for further analysis.