They've been dumping sludge around here for about ten years. I'm surrounded on three sides by sludge dumping. There was a meeting about sludge, and a lady from BioGro stood up and said she had stood in the middle of the field after the sludge was spread and she couldn't smell a thing. Then I got up and told her that her nose must be burned out, or she needed a new nose because that stuff really stank.
At the meeting the people who wanted to spread the sludge were very obnoxious. They said they had a permit and had the right to dump where they wanted to.
About (a) year ago they were dumping in the field near me and I asked when they would stop. They said they should be done by the afternoon. Three days later they were still dumping sludge there, really loading it up. I talked to the landowner face to face and expressed my concern about the sludge being spread so near to my place. Now they do not dump it closer than 2000 feet. It still smells when they dump it and the wind is blowing towards me, but it is much better now since they're not dumping right up to my fence line.
Some years ago I took a video of them laying the sludge on the field. The next day the guy who was spreading it came by and gave me a nice pamphlet about how good the stuff was.
I told him that I saw in the pamphlet how they are supposed to be tilling it into the soil but that he was just laying it on the soil. He told me that sometimes they have to till it in but it's more beneficial if it's just laying on the field.
There is a petition going around that asks them to stop dumping that has about 700 names on it so far.
(Telephone statement taken by Judy Johnson on 4/30/01)
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