"Acceptable Risk" What a crock of shit.
Give us all a break with all your risk assessment studies, They only serve to inflame and anger us. I guess these "studies" serve to justify and rationalize the criminal acts USEPA and State Agencies do by poisoning the land, people, and all life. Did you ever think of doing a study of all the poor wildlife, the animals that live on these surface disposal areas, or those animals that travel over it?
We have seen sights like in'93, 3,000 mexican freetail bats near the MERCO's application area on an adjoining ranch, falling out of their roosting area (a railroad bridge over an arroyo) lay dying and dead. The sight of these beautiful small mammals falling 10-20 at a time and lying sickened to die is a sad and bizarre sight. Being very small mammals, these "Bioareosols" will nail their immune system quicker than us humans that weigh over 100 lbs.
We called the Texas Water Commission (now TNRCC) to come
and sample these dead and dying bats. They did, they took 2 ice chests full and air freighted it to Austin. When we called later for the pathology results, they said "what bats, what are you talking about?", and when the media persisted, they finally admitted sampling the 200 bats, but said "they lost the sample" . This was one of my first lessons in the lengths our state agency will go to promote and protect the sludge projects and the beneficial use sludge program of USEPA. Pathetic.
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