Composting in Napa

Recently our company has been introduced to composting and waste water odor problems in the Napa Valley. Grape growing necessitates waste organic material. How you get rid of that material can sometimes be a large concern to your winery neighbors. If you are outside on a nice sunny day overlooking the vineyards of the valley it should be a memorable experience. But if you are in that same situation and the prevalent odor in the air is of sewage then there are some concerns. Composting is a simple practice, and excessive odors have simple solutions. Wastewater issues are sometimes a bit more complex, but once the specific problem is found, the solutions are normally fairly simple to implement also. We have a client which is a very high end winery, and they have a neighbor who composts and has a waste water pond. The neighbor is not well versed in how they take care of their wastes, and the odors flowing into the tasting room and veranda of our client are significant, and so the issue also becomes economic because tastings and onsite sales decrease. So the problem then is not only solving the odor issue, but how to get a neighbor to implement odor control that does not effect his tasting room, because the prevailing wind is in the opposite direction. We are considering how to solve this problem now.