SLUDGE VICTIMS

I was first exposed to sludge last July and August 2000. 1 run a body shop and scrap yard. They sludged 4 different spots near me. The smell was terrible. The sludge polluted my drinking water. I drink a lot of water because it was summer and very hot out ... and there was also the heat from my cutting torches.

I got so deathly sick from drinking the water, I could hardly walk. I had chills -- it was 82 degrees and I am standing in my insulated coveralls, shivering. 15 minutes later I was sweating so bad I smelled like dead meat. They put 3 IVs in me at the hospital. They said I had "beaver fever" (giardia lamblia).

I suffered severe fatigue - no strength whatsoever. The other people working here with me had the same symptoms. I got a rash on my arms and on my neck just above the shirt collar and the other gentleman working with me also got a rash on his arms.

The sludge is being put on rental farms in the arm but the people admit they would not put it on their own farms. The environmental people tried to tell me it was my barn fire that contaminated my water. I had the water tested and the results showed it contained bacteria and human waste. A lady around the comer also tested her well and it was found to have bacteria and human waste in it.

I know another place where they spread sludge. The people had a pond. It rained 3 or 4 days after they spread the sludge, the sludge ran into the pond and killed all the trout.

They spread 300 acres northeast of my place. The sludge was so thick the tractor couldn't plow it under. They left it laying on the top of the land. When the tractor left the field, over 1 1/2 miles of road were splattered with sludge from the plow and tractor.

Other symptoms I suffered were terrible headaches so bad I had to have a pillow over my head with my eyes closed; sore throats and trouble swallowing; hoarseness and burning eyes, burning in the nasal area; breathing difficulties, wheezing and shortness of breath. (I have a bad lung f@om pleurisy. The sludge made me so weak I couldn't walk more than 200 feet without getting completely exhausted.) I experienced severe nausea, abdominal distress, cramps and diarrhea. Al.] this illness from the sludge seems to have weakened my immune system. I had

CANADA - ONTARIO - VICTIM HOSPITALIZED - SUFFERED GIARDIA LAMBLIA, RASHES, TERRIBLE HEADACHES, SEVERE FATIGUE, DIARRHEA, SORE THROATS, BREATHING DIFFICULTIES.