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Piling it High
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In These Times
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June 1, 2008
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- Bleifuss, Joel
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The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day
NANCY HOLT, A RETIRED nurse from Mebane, N.C., is beset by mysterious neurological problems. She blames the cause of her illness on the multiple unknown toxicities of the sewage sludge that has been spread since 1991 on the fields across from her house as "fertilizer."
And Holt says she isn't alone. People in her neighborhood have a high incidence of cancer and thyroid problems. Local creeks are no longer safe for kids to play in-the danger of staph infection is too great.
In 2001, Holt began chronicling the health problems in her area of rural Alamance County-12 miles north of Chapel Hill. Soon she was tracking reports of sludge-related ...
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EPA Makes Final Decision on Dioxin in Sewage Sludge Used in Land...
U.S. Newswire;
October 17, 2003 ;
787 words
......to regulate dioxins in land-applied sewage sludge. After five years of study, including...theoretically, are those people who apply sewage sludge as a fertilizer to their crops and...of new cancer cases resulting from sewage sludge containing dioxin is even smaller due...
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Soil fertility experiments will help ensure sustainable use of sewage...
M2 Presswire;
November 14, 2007 ;
704 words
......will help ensure sustainable use of sewage sludge on land(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...fertility of the heavy metals present in sewage sludge has published interim findings today...improve soil quality. Spreading treated sewage sludge on agricultural land provides organic...
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Removal of Heavy Metals from Sewage Sludge Used as Soil Fertilizer
Soil & Sediment Contamination;
January 1, 2005 ;
Turek, Marian; Korolewicz, Teofil; Ciba, Jerzy;
787 words
...This work has examined sewage sludge of the following heavy metal...permissible for agricultural sewage sludge application (2500 mg/kg). The...extraction of metals from the sewage sludge using sodium salt ofethylenediaminetetraacetic...
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 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Sewage sludge danger.(News)
Cape Times (South Africa);
May 15, 2008 ;
355 words
...The problems created by spreading raw sewage sludge on agricultural fields to the north...creates further problems. Untreated sewage sludge is not nice stuff. It can contain pathogens...heavy metals and organic pollutants. Sewage sludge should be mixed with organic material...
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Impact of Sewage Sludge Compost Utilization on Chemical Properties of...
Compost Science & Utilization;
October 1, 2006 ;
Beltrán, Eulalia M; de Imperial, Rosario Miralles; Porcel, Miguel A; Beringola, M Luisa; Et al;
787 words
......Madrid, Spain). There were four treatments, sewage sludge compost (SSC), sewage sludge compost plus urea (SSC+U), urea (U) and...15-30 cm). Once a year, before spreading sewage sludge compost, soil samples were taken at depths...
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Use of Sewage Sludge in Construction
The Architects' Journal;
March 3, 2005 ;
Williams, Austin;
326 words
...Use of Sewage Sludge in Construction Gunn, Dewhurst...stakeholders in the recycling of sewage sludge including sludge producers'. Nice...cent of the one million tonnes of sewage sludge solids that are not used in agriculture...
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Don't trash sludge.(recycling sewage sludge as fertilizer)(Brief...
OnEarth;
June 22, 2004 ;
Beecher, Ned;
179 words
......Briefings item by Jason Best about sewage sludge ( They're Recycling What? Spring 2004...byproduct of that vital process is sewage sludge. The writer contends that today's raw...wastewater facilities. And although sewage sludge does contain pathogens, it contains...
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Degradation of DEHP, PAHs and LAS in source separated MSW and sewage...
Compost Science & Utilization;
October 1, 2003 ;
Moeller, Jacob; Reeh, Ulrik;
787 words
......investigated. Source separated MSW and sewage sludge, respectively, were composted at temperatures...regardless of process temperature. In sewage sludge, the highest degradation of 91% was...temperature of 65C. LAS degradation in sewage sludge was fastest at 55C, but at both ...
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Development and tests of lightweight aggregate using sewage sludge for...
Construction and Building Materials;
July 1, 2007 ;
Mun, K.J.;
787 words
......this study is to efficiently treat sewage sludge discharged from sewage treatment plants...aggregate made from a large quantity of sewage sludge. Sintered lightweight aggregate from sewage sludge is experimentally manufactured with...
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Sewage sludge plans 'another nail in coffin' of Scots farming
The Scotsman;
March 23, 2006 ;
Fordyce Maxwell;
232 words
......to spread more than 75,000 tonnes of sewage sludge annually on Scottish farm land could...to spread about half of Scotland's sewage sludge on farms is part of a consultation...Tim Evans describing resistance to sewage sludge use in crop quality assurance schemes...
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EPA ISSUES FINAL GENERAL SEWAGE SLUDGE PERMIT FOR LOUISIANA TREATMENT...
Regulatory Intelligence Data;
August 25, 1998 ;
INDSTRY GROUP 99;
299 words
......EPA) has issued a final General Sewage Sludge permit that establishes guidelines to assure that sewage sludge, a bi-product of household sewage...and privately-owned, that generate sewage sludge or change or control the quality...
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Rep. Serrano Introduces Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
January 19, 2007 ;
787 words
......Serrano, D-New York, has introduced the Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification...or poultry raised on land on which sewage sludge was applied." The bill, introduced...full-text of the legislation follows:Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification...
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