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Patricia McConn stepped onto her porch Thursday and crinkled her nose.

It was to look through binoculars she just bought on Amazon. Not in response to the pungent smell a neighbor anonymously reported nearby this past fall.

Someone took a whiff of an “odorous, slimy residue” at the roughly 12-mile Elizabeth River tributary and called it in.

The sticky stuff appeared white and gray by the waterway and, federal inspectors found, red and brown inside a suspected source of the problem, a produce company.

It all came as news to McConn, a systems analyst in her 50s from Hillside, that the Environmental Protection Agency was in her neighborhood at all. Let alone investigating industrial pollution at the tributary.

Thus far, federal officials have linked the discharge issue to the nearly century-old Gargiulo Produce.

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Source: NJ.com – February 14, 2026