The broiling temperatures have affected a roughly 30-acre area, where putrid gases and hazardous liquids have burst through the surface of the landfill.

The deep maroon skirt of a blooming corpse flower mimics the color of rotting flesh, part of its ploy, along with its putrid “fragrance,” to attract carrion-loving pollinators.

When the blooms are big enough, they can turn the water fluorescent green and make it smell putrid.

Alongside the health problems is what she describes as a “putrid dead smell” emanating constantly from the water.

There was a separate area where older people slept on thin mattresses under floodlights, and a putrid smell hung in the air, he said.