Foul odors in Travis?

You don’t say.

We thought we were done with rancid stenches coming from the old Fresh Kills landfill property.

But I guess not.

A composting facility located on the grounds of the old dump has been stinking up the West Shore for the last year or so.

That’s right: we closed the landfill decades ago, but a once-beleaguered corner of Staten Island is again suffering from the stench of garbage.

After complaints were raised, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has identified the composting facility as the culprit.

The facility has been in operation since 1991, but its workload has gotten a lot bigger now that city residents are mandated to separate organic material from their trash for composting.

It was reported in June that the facility, which handles all of the Island’s compost and some from South Brooklyn, is actually nearing its operating capacity.

So business is good. But it turns out it’s been bad for Travis residents.

And those folks know what garbage smells like. They lived with the dump stench for generations.

Back when Fresh Kills was in full swing, the landfill took in all of the city’s garbage. Tons upon tons of it every day, arriving by truck and by barge.

The dump broke every environmental law on the books but was still allowed to operate.

Staten Islanders were lied to when the dump opened back in 1948. We were told Fresh Kills would only be in operation for a few years.

It turned out to be half a century.

The Fresh Kills landfill, more than any other single thing, showed just how much disdain City Hall and the other four boroughs had for Staten Island.

We were the Forgotten Borough in all things except for garbage. The City of New York sure did remember us when it was time to dump the trash.

And while the whole borough suffered, it was Travis and the rest of the West Shore that took the everyday brunt of the dump.

The foul smell emanating from the landfill, particularly in the summer, meant that people couldn’t enjoy their own backyards or keep their windows open.

Paper blown from the gigantic landfill mounds tangled in tree branches and dangled from utility wires.

We literally had to sue the city and the state in order to get the dump closed. The landfill is now a park. We thought we’d never have to suffer those smells again.

Now we know different. Now it’s compost that’s causing funky smells to come from dreaded old landfill.

It’s like Staten Island is getting dumped on all over again. Maybe we should add this to the pile of reasons why Staten Island should secede from New York City.

In a bid to curb the rank smells, a Sanitation spokesperson said that the department is looking to use a scented mist at DSNY operations; a special covered composting system; turning compost at 5 a.m., and regular odor assessments in neighborhoods surrounding the facility.

A scented mist?

Forgive me but that just doesn’t pass the smell test.