January 23. 2020
The Odor Report has been an extremely useful tool in our fight to drive environmental regulatory compliance at the Arbor Hills landfill. The Conservancy Initiative (TCI) is committed to maintaining The Odor Report to ensure this critical tool is available for our ongoing efforts. Additionally, TCI is committed to ensuring that your donation money goes far. Towards this end, the website has been updated with a slightly new look along with some functional and security enhancements based on user feedback over the past couple of years.
The new website is www.tciodorreport.com. The current website (www.theodorreport.com) will continue to function by automatically redirecting to the new website. As a result, we don’t anticipate any disruption to our user community. This transition will occur in the next 24-48 hours. Again, we don’t anticipate any disruption to the user’s ability to report odors during this transition. All the data from the current system will be saved for reporting purposes before the transition.
The new application provides savings of nearly 97% every year over the current hosting service. TCI will invest the savings towards additional efforts to bring the landfill in to environmental compliance.
Here is what’s changed:
The drop-down lists for Odor Scale and Odor Duration fields have been updated
A Captcha verification has been added before submission to eliminate malicious bot submissions
The confirmation emails to the submitter have been eliminated; less email clutter
The option to request someone to contact you has been removed
User accounts have been removed. One less user name/password to remember
Here is what remains the same:
You can continue to submit an odor report without logging in
You can choose to remain anonymous while submitting your odor report
You will see the confirmation page after submission that shows how many odor reports have been submitted so far today, very similar to the current confirmation page
Odor complaint is immediately sent to the relevant authorities
If you have any feedback or issues while using the new website, please send a note to info@theconservancyinitiative.org so we can take action. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
The Conservancy Initiative Team