SLUDGE VICTIMS

Home on the Range at the Nation's Largest Sewage Dump

Sources:

1. "Organic Toxicants and Pathogens in Sewage Sludge and Their Environmental Effects, " J.G .Babish, D.J. Lisk ,G.S. Stoewsand, and C .Wilkinson, A Special Report of the Subcommittee on Organics in Sludge, Cornell University, College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences, December 1981.

2. "Flood of Money Wins an Uneasy Home in Texas for New York City Waste". Allen R. Myerson, The New York Times, 7/17/95
and "
Stink Over Sludge ", Kevin Flynn and Michael Moss, New York Newsday, 8/2/94.

3. U.S. Department ofAgriculture Soil Conservation Service, Temple Texas, "Upper North Bosque River Watershed Plan and Environmental Assessment, " May 15, 1992 p. 2
'an estimated 1. 12 billion pounds of wet animal waste is accumulating each year. This amount of untreated manure is enough to fill the Astrodome in a 3-year period.'

4. TAC 30 (C) Prior to any off-site transportation or on-site use or disposal of any sewage sludge generated at a wastewater treatmentfacility, the chief certified operator of the wastewater treatment facility or other responsible official who manages the processes to significantly reduce pathogens at the wastewater treatmentf aciliryfor the permittee, shall certify that the sewage sludge underwent at least the minimum operational requirements necessary in order to meet one of the Processes to Significantly Reduce Pathogens. The acceptable processes and the minimum operational and record keeping requirements shall be in accordance with established U.S. Environmental Protection Agency final guidance,

5. Telephone interview 11/22/99i with Bill Addington, a third generation Sierra Blanca resident and business owner.

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TEXAS, SIERRA BLANCA- ODORS.-- "AMMONIA VAPOR MIXED WITH FECAL SMELL" - "IT SMELLS LIKE DEATH" SLUDGE VICTIMS SUFFER STRANGE RASHES, BLISTERS IN MOUTH, MORE FLU, COLDS, ALLERGIES, ASTHMA -- RANCHER UNABLE TO SELL PROPERTY BECAUSE OF SMELL.