She lives across an intersection from a composting plant between Martinsdale and Bennington. Plant processes "source separated moldy organic" material. Facility is privately owned. County now wants to get rid of sewage sludge at the plant. The city of Des Moine wants to ship their sludge there also. The officials are trying to amend ordinances so they can compost the sludge and apply to farm lands. The community is fighting against it..
The plant is over 5 aquifers and the shallowest one is only 5 feet below the ground.
No one knows for sure what is currently being composted in the plant. Everyone in the neighborhood is ill with respiratory problems, sinus infections, eye infections and asthma. The family that lives closest to the facility and down wind of the facility have all had some sort of cancerous growth or tumors. The brother has cancer of the throat, the wife has had a tumor in her thyroids, the husband has had cancer in his sinuses, the daughter has had some growths removed, the nephew has had growths removed twice. There are strange molds that grow on buildings. There are two other cases of lung cancer and a lot of eye infections.
The city has cited the facility a number of times for odors . It smells like a "hog lagoon"
In the neighboring county-Madison County- there is a farm where the farmer has allowed sludge to be dumped for several years. He now "can't growweeds".
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