Sewage Sludge
, General
Federal probe raises sewage sludge health concerns
Investigation finds too little research exists to protect humans from the viruses,
bacteria and toxins in the sludge spread on land
February 7, 2002
About time people realize that there are sludge victims !!
NOTE: if this link does not work, please try sludgevictims.net
Board OK's legal action against Mobil Dredging
2002 by Marcella Peyre-Ferry
Sludge storage structure planned for farm
August 29, 2001, Lancaster New Era(?),by Marcella Peyre-Ferry
Sludge-Health Links Washington Post, July-Aug.2001
Enhanced Susceptibility to Infection From Exposure to Gases Emitted by Sewage Sludge: A Case Study
David L. Lewis, Samuel Shepherd, David K. Gattie,Susan Sanchez, and Marc Novak - Proceedings of National Science Foundation Workshop. College Park, Maryland. April 10-11, 2000
EXPERT WITNESS REPORT OF DAVID L. LEWIS, PH.D.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
JOANNE M. MARSHALL, ET AL v. WHEELABRATOR WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC, ET AL
Sludge blamed for Inland ills: Muck came from Orange County
February 9, 2001
$ 1 trillion problem runs beneath U.S. streets,
February 7, 2001
Please visit the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection
Website
for details on SLUDGE, including:
...Agricultural
Beneficial Use of Sewage Sludge
...Municipal
and Residual Waste
...For a series of graphs
showing statistics on sludge,
please press here
EPA WEAKENS PART 503 SLUDGE RULES - 1999 - HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM - 12,000 mg/kg - okay in land applied sludge
Some Articles re Sludge Problems
in Virginia's "Culpeper News", April 2000
Audit shows EPA is not following own guidelines
VA Shenandoah Valley Herald, April 24, 2000, by Jane Etter
courtesy Helane Shields
...Also visit the Cornell Waste Management
Institute
and take a look at their excellent:
Working
Paper: The Case for Caution
"Recommendations for Land Application
of Sewage Sludges
and an Appraisal of the U.S. EPA's Part 503 Sludge
Rules"
by Ellen Z. Harrison, Murray B. McBride and David R.
Bouldin
dated August 1997
Copies are available from:
CWMI, Center for the Environment,
100 Rice Hall, Cornell
University
Ithaca, NY 14853-5601
tel 607-255-1187; E-mail:
cwmi@cornell.edu
Also have a look at:
"Sewage Sludge: A New U.S. Waste Policy Emerges"
in "Rachel's Environment & Health
Weekly"
(POB 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403-7036)
unfortunately, at this time I do not have the first part, but here is:
Part 2, first
page
a n d
Part 2, second
page
A very good
summary is presented by
Charlotte Hartman, Coordinator,
National Sludge Alliance under the
heading:
"Sludge as a Fertilizer an Idea Before Its Time" comprising:
page 1: What is Sludge? Sludge
Disposal
page 2:
Risk Assessment; Human Health Impacts
page 3:
Background of the Part 503 Regulation
page 4:
Pathogens
page 5:
a n d
page 6:
Conclusion
.....NOTE: attached sources to follow
...example of available data
on
..........composition of U.S. municipal sewage sludges
..........(thanks to K. Aubrey Hottell for reference!)
The Sludge Hits the Fan
Ch.8 in: Toxic Sludge is good for you
Sewage Sludge Home Page
...Pennsylvania Sludge Issues
..........Selection Page
Letter dated September 27, 1993 from Martha G. Prothro, Acting
Assistant
Administrator, USEPA, to Hon. Gary A. Condit, re liability under
CERCLA
when applying "biosolids":
...part 1
...part 2
...part 3
...Philadelphia Treated Sewage
Sludge Disposal at Sea
..........Article by Ben Oostdam about Ocean Disposal of Sewage Waste in
the 1970's
..........mainly for historic and environmentally responsible
viewpoint
..........but please note
CONCLUSION!!
first version: November 2, 1997; latest update: May 27, 1998; reorganized: January 7-14, 1999, updated March 19, May 2, 1999, March 4, August 26, September 10, 2001, February 14, 2002
file name= https://members.tripod.com/~PA_Sludge/html/sludge_general.html
to go to Index of Ben Oostdam's Websites
...part 1