Article: Sludge control ordinance must have EIR: Kern County fends off some sanitation agency challenges.(Legal digest)

Kern County should have prepared an environmental impact report before adopting an ordinance regulating the disposal of sewage sludge on agricultural land, the Fifth District Court of Appeal has ruled. The court ordered Kern County to study direct and indirect impacts of the regulation, including the effects that result from out-of-county agencies having to find new sludge disposal methods.

The court did uphold the county's authority to regulate the land application of sewage sludge, and the court ruled that sanitation agencies should have completed environmental reviews of contracts for the hauling and land disposal of sewage sludge.

The court also left ...

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