A native CO-Ho Salmon run has been destroyed that used to
border our property. It took the State Fisheries Department one year to respond. I thanked them in writing profusely !
The cows were sick, many died, and are now all gone. We could not pass an environmental test to s atisfy the lending institutions. Four dogs have died, an autopsy revealed chemically induced hepatitis. Two people have died here and more people are nearing death in other locations from being poisoned. YES... It is from being poisoned from sewage sludge, as the tests clearly show ... To tell you that I am angry about these contaminated materials being spread on the property located next door to me, would be a gross understatement. I am just literally appalled that the Health Department allowed this to ever take place, or make any efforts to respond to any complaints with urgency before the illness and death became a familiar part of our lives. Most of us have been unable to sell our property and do not have the money to just leave.
Yet, our E.P.A. states "we have no studies that show any humans ever getting sick from sewage." The absolute truth, however, is that they didn't do any studies ! Research is definitely available and I am enclosing some for your records. Those before 1990 are questionable, because of the lack of technical capabilities and the lack of knowledge to properly
sample sewage ground.
It is from my heart, that I beseech you to help us find someone to tell our story. It is terribly sad, touched with areas of humor. Like the day our county vet spent searching our barnyard for sharp objects and rat poison to explain why our cows were bleeding to death from the nose. Natural occurring rat poison is made from the sulfuric acids, organics and potassium which reside in sewage! Only after two such searches was our vet brought to reality, kicking and fighting all the way. It is really sad because these people have very little training in toxicology of soils. The same ignorance exists with the medical profession.
A couple of miles east, in our local cemetery, is an unmarked grave. Our neighbor and dear friend died just three days after his 45th birthday from toxic levels of copper and a very rare 10 pound tumor on his spleen. His last months were wrought with pain. The air was so thick with the biting smell of sewage it would wake you while sleeping, seeping through the closed windows. The odor was so intense and putrid you could actually taste it in your mouth and smell it in your perspiration. Rot, Urine, Feces, Rotten smells of vegetables, and almonds permeated the air, while he fought to breathe on a ventilator, nauseated and unable to control his bodily functions, at the last. We won at the hearing just a week before his death, 72 findings of fact, with prime-facie established, that the land was not fit to accept sewage because it was a wetland and peat soil. The permit was
revoked. But the dumping lingered on during the night,
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