Nick wrote on Aug 18, 2008 11:28 AM:
" Coincidentally, if on Thursday or Friday it smelled like someone took a Crap on your front stoop, they did, and it was deposited there courtesy of the County Supervisors.
No Joke, there were times on Thursday and Friday that parts of Campbell County smelled just like an open sewer. "
Helane Shields wrote on Aug 16, 2008 12:08 PM:
" Sewage sludge "biosolids" contains significant quantities of toxic industrial wastes. Federal law allows every business and industry in the country to dump 33 pounds of hazardous wastes in public sewers each month with no reporting requirements.
Sewage sludge "biosolids" has sickened people and animals (some have died), and contaminated surface and groundwater in Virginia and around the country.
University of Wisconsin scientists whose research is funded by US EPA, have recently warned the EPA and waste industry of a new risk with land application of both Class B and Class A sewage sludge - infectious prions from many human and animal sources. Prions cause Mad Cow Disease, Chronic Wasting Disease, Scrapie, and in humans, Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease. Wastewater treatment does NOT inactivate prions, but reconcentrates them in the sludge. See http://www.sludgevictims.com/pathogens/prion.html for more information.
Europe is way ahead of USA in using sludge as a renewable resource to produce biogas, heat, energy, power, etc. New non-polluting technologies protect agricultural land, save money, and reduce both greenhouse gases and the need to import costly foreign oil and gas.
Helane Shields, PO Box 1133, Alton, NH 03809 sludge researcher since 1996 http://www.sludgevictims.com "
