MLGW - Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division
06/08/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/08/2026 13:12
Gas Odor in the Air on Monday, June 8
Gas Odor in the Air on Monday, June 8
June 8, 2026
MLGW will perform routine maintenance involving mercaptan at several locations today. Maintenance will occur near Airways Boulevard and Stateline Road, Highway 269 and Quad County Lane and North Germantown Parkway and Chimneyrock Blvd. on Monday, June 8, 2026.
This routine work will start at 10 a.m. and take two hours, at each point, to complete.
The public in the surrounding area may smell mercaptan in the air. Mercaptan is the chemical odorant that MLGW adds to natural gas to give it the rotten egg/sulfur smell so it can be easily detected.
Depending on the wind/weather conditions, residents and businesses in the vicinity could smell this strong, sulfuric odor during the morning or from the odorant truck as it travels from each point.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water is the largest three-service public power utility in the nation, serving the residents of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee since 1939. MLGW consistently provides customers with rates that are amongst the lowest in the nation and stewards a water supply from artesian wells that is minimally treated. Actively engaged in promoting the prosperity of Memphis and Shelby County, MLGW supports the seven local chambers in its service area and makes doing business with local, minority- and women-owned business a priority. Deeply rooted in the community, its employees generously donate time and money in support of bettering the Greater Memphis area.
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