You can fight city hall - just ask people in part of the Town of Webster.
"You most certainly can,” says Village of Webster Mayor John Cahill. “It's a village operation in the town, but they're our neighbors and they had issues."
The issue surrounded the village sewage treatment plant, which opened in 1993, when that part of the Town of Webster wasn’t as developed.
This is the week that people who live downwind of the plant have been waiting for. Last summer, after the village trimmed trees around the plant, smells from composting overpowered neighbors.
"We listened to the neighbors. We listened to the town. The board majority made a decision to stop the composting process at the sewage treatment plant."
Mayor Cahill says the compost should be gone by the end of the week.
"Back in 1993, obviously the town wasn't as built out as it is now. Within a mile or so of the plant, there are more than a thousand homes, and there are a number of homes that are within maybe 100 yards of the plant, so, it was definitely having an impact on them."
Webster is often one of the fastest-growing towns in Monroe County, and over the years the area around the plant filled in.
Cahill said it didn't pass the sniff test.
"Their concerns and their complaints were valid. The odor was there. It was prevalent. On a personal note, I would not want to have to live across from the sewage treatment plant, with that odor. Not for one day."
The odor might improve this week. Crews are removing compost and bio solids.
"The plan is to have all the compost that's on the pad right now removed by the end of next (this) week. We listened to our neighbors in the town and we took the appropriate action."
LINK: Neighbors organized to convince the village to clean up the compost pile.
