A mysterious stench has lingered over homes and businesses near Memorial Park Drive and Murphy Boulevard in Gainesville since late June, and now local government is enlisting the help of both public and private environmental agencies to find its source. “We understand how disturbing this is for area residents and business owners and are doing everything in our power to get to the bottom of this,” Kelly Randall, director of the Gainesville Department of Water Resources, said in a press release Wednesday. The odor smells like a toilet bowl, raw sewage or dead insects and vegetation, depending on who you ask.