PDEP announces
Hearing Date re A &M Composting Permit Renewal
July 18, 2001,
starting 07:00 p.m (19:00) at Penn Twnshp Bldg, Manheim
toxics
in fertilizer
quote from Duff Wilson , Seattle Times, dated July 15,
2001
PDEP Secretary
James M. Seif resigns
Lancaster New Era, March 16, 2001
Countians in
anti-sludge petition drive
Lancaster New Era, March 15,
2001
includes reference to Sandy Smith, York Cy anti-sludge
activist
Please read Helane Shield's Email request and copies
of letters
addressed to NAS-NRC concerning bias in the constitution of the
new
committee to report on sewage sludge:
Email
from Len Martin, July 10, 2001 re "Toxic Chemical Review Process
Faulted"
copies of
three letters
letter
from Cornell University Staff to NAS-NRC
also: letter
from Charlotte Hartman to NAS-NRC
a n d
letter to
Hon.Christine Todd-Whitman, Administrator, USEPA
March 1, 2001 protesting
designation of EPA liaison to NAS-NRC
Please check out: General
Sludge Issues
which includes case study and examples of health hazards
of "biosolids"
Please read and send your comments (within 60 days from Feb 10,
2001)
to PDEP about this huge
and questionable operation
involving New York sludge processing
and
distribution of "biosolids" !
NOTE: On February 9, 2001, I made a search
of articles about
J.P.Mascaro & Sons on the search page of PDEP;
they
provided 75 items which are summarized HERE for your
judgment.
Also take a look at the interesting Mascaro Website
Notice
re Application of A & M for renewal of license
promulgated in Intelligencer Journal, February 7, 2001
the Manor Landfill controversy :
Links to scanned newspaper
articles and to proponents' websites
January 24, 2001 and subsequent dates
Waste
Disposal Issues
Regional-sewage-system
study appears near
Lancaster New Era, March 14, 2001
Suburban sewer
rates rise 27%
January 24, 2001, Lancaster New Era, by Cindy Stauffer
and Ryan Robinson
LASA seeking some new ways to use sludge
January 24,
2001, Lancaster New Era, by Ad Crable
Trash trucks
inspection set
October 14, 2000, Lancaster New Era,
Safety of land
sludge questioned :
Boy died in 1994 after riding motor cycle
through
field treated with sewage
May 15, 2000, Lancaster New Era
Alcosan may
fire firm that bribed Gigliotti
about sludge hauling contract with a
Newcastle company
April 27, 2000
re Lancaster Sludge
Odor
E-mail of April 26, 2000 from Bradley A. Striebig to BLO
USEPA 40 CFR
p.685-716, July 1, 1997: Standards for the use or disposal of sewage
sludge"
Please visit the Website of the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection
for details on SLUDGE, including:
...Agricultural
Beneficial Use of Sewage Sludge
...Biosolids Home
Page
...Municipal
and Residual Waste
...1996
Waste Import Data
Guide
to Municipal and Residual Waste Permit Applications
PA
Dept.Envir.Protection Form N : Composting Facilities
PA
Dept.Envir.Protection Form 43: Request for Approval to Dispose of or Process
Sewage Sludge
Also see Agricultural Land
Application of Biosolids in Virginia: Risks and Concerns
by G.K.Evanylo,
1999, VA Cooperative Extension
...Letter
from PA Governor Tom Ridge
..........to the Hons.George E.
Pataki,
.......... Governor of the State of New York
..........and Rudolph
W. Giuliani,
..........Mayor of New York City
..........concerning
alarming increase
.......... in municipal waste imports from N.Y.
For
a more recent update, see:
...Governor
Ridge on Out-of-State Waste
...........March 10, 1999
Also visit
the site of:
the Pen Sludge
Leadership Team
...For a series of graphs showing statistics on sewage sludge, please
press here
...Also
visit the general
sludge issues Selection Page
Mysterious Smell
Around Lancaster, PA
a series of articles published in the Lancaster New
Era, December, 1999
On October 27, 1999, I received a thorough briefing on the A & M
operations by Mr. Tom Sweeney, Soil Scientist of PDEP. Thanks again,
Tom!
In addition to copies I made of documents requested earlier, I also
received several relevant USEPA and PDEP documents, as well as four good summary
reports prepared by Dr. Richard C.
Stehouwer of Penn State - who, in response to my E-mail question wrote that
these reports can be downloaded from their WWW site.
NOTE: The letter below was acknowledged by TIME but not published.
Instead, they featured comments
by Joseph Cocalis in their October 4, 1999 issue.
Copy of
letter to TIME ..........submitted by Ben Oostdam on September 22,
1999
Fight over
Sludge Starts to Get Dirty.
..........TIME, Notebook - Environment, issue
dated September 27, 1999
DEP
Issues Odor Penalties at Berks & Lancaster County Facilities
July
16, 1999
A & M
composter fined
..........Lancaster New Era,
..........July 14,
1999
(Lancaster)
Sewer, Waste Authorities, Trade
Services
..........Sludge will be landfilled; swap will lower
costs.
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, May 31,
1999:
............... part
A
............... part B
J.P. Mascaro & Sons Home Page
"The New
York City sludge issue is not that simple."
..........Letter to the
Editor, Lancaster New Era,
.......... Ben Oostdam, May 22, 1999
Email to PA
Dept.of Envir.Protection,
..........by Ben Oostdam, May 20,
1999
NYC
sludge will benefit Lancaster Farms
..........Letter to the Editor of
Lancaster New Era, May 19, 1999
..........by Robert E. Adamski, P.E., Deputy
Commissioner
..........Director, Bureau of Wastewater Pollution Control, New
York City
...New York Sludge Here!
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, April 9,
1999
..Dear NYC: Keep Your Trash!
..........County sites reject Big Apple
waste, Ridge Survey finds
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, April 3,
1999
..........(included because article also refers to Manheim A&M
.......... but press here
for more about waste disposal from and in New York
...Editorial in Lancaster New Era,
.......... March 23,
1999:
.........."Before N.Y.sludge trucks
roll,
...........................we need some answers."
...Sludge, Government Spokespersons, Manheim - our
backyard
..........Letter to the Editor of the Lancaster New
Era
..........Ben Oostdam, March 19, 1999
..............(as actually
printed; comparison with letter as sent (below)
..............shows that copy
of my June, 98 warning was mailed to PA Governor
..............Senate and
DEP!)
...Sludge, Government Spokespersons, Manheim - our
backyard
..........Letter to the Editor of the Lancaster New
Era
..........Ben Oostdam, March 19, 1999
..........(actual text sent
in Letter to Editor)
Manheim plant ok'd for New York
Sludge
..........Smell feared as 1 million tons begin arriving
soon
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, March 18, 1999
part
1 ........... part
2
...DEP, A & M neighbors smell a problem
..........Sludge
Complaints
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, February 10,
1999
...Sludge testing bill gets House OK
..........But scope limited and
Senate vote uncertain
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, November 17,
1998
...NYC sludge not coming - yet
..........Concerns about Manheim firm
cited
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, June 30, 1998
...series of 3 Lebanon, PA sludge articles
..........published
in the Lebanon Daily News, December 14, 1997
...Commentary in the Lancaster New Era
..........of December
8, 1997 by Dr.Ben Oostdam
..........concerning sludge imports into Lancaster
County
...
State may appeal judge's order to lift sanctions
..........against Manheim
composter.
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, December 3, 1997
...
Environmental Hearing Board
..........suspends order to cut sludge intake at
A & M Composting
..........12/05/97
...Why does Barley
..........oppose saving farms from
sludge?
..........Lancaster New Era, November 7, 1997
...
Judge suspends limits on Penn composting plant
..........Temporary ruling
lifts DEP order that severely reduced sludge intake
..........P.J. Reilly,
Intelligencer Journal, November 12, 1997
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Rep. Barley aids A & M in sludge controversy
Helps owner arrange
meeting to air 'harassment'
complaints against Pa. officials
..........Ad
Crable, Lancaster New Era, October 20, 1997:
...part 1 (incl. photograph of State Rep. John E. Barley)
...part 2
...Will new Pa order kill NYC sludge deal here?
..........Ad
Crable, Lancaster New Era, October 3, 1997
...Q
& A re New York Sludge
..........responses by Sally Rowland of New York
to some questions
..........asked by Ben Oostdam, October 1997
...Demos eye tough sludge controls; ...hit Rep. Barley
..........Tim
Buckwalter and Ad Crable
..........Lancaster New Era, October 28,
1997
...Manheim sludge plant told to halve operations
..........Mandate
expected to affect NYC sewage deal
..........(15 years $ 95.6 million
contract to compost about 60,000 tons of N.Y. sludge per
year...)
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, September 27,
1997
Excellent article by Susan O. Stranahan in The
Philadelphia Inquirer
of September 9, 1997 entitled:
"A growing protest that Pa is getting dumped on":
... [part 1]
... [part
2] ...
[part 3] ... [part 4]
... [part 5
(=photograph of facility)]
...State will meet with compost plant critics
..........Lancaster New
Era, September 4, 1997
...Opponents blast NYC sludge in county
..........Pa. to weigh closing
firm next week
a n d
......Sludge (cont.)
..........Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era, August
28, 1997
...W.Va.warns county about sludge firm
a n d
...N.Y sludge, (cont.)
..........(includes map of N.Y.City
sludge composting site in Manheim, Lancaster Cy, PA)
..........Ad
Crable/Bill Dussinger,
.......... Lancaster New Era, August 26,
1997
...EPA engineer: PA becoming 'pay toilet'
..........Lancaster New Era,
July 10, 1997
...Local plant to process 14% of all NYC sludge
..........Ad Crable,
Lancaster New Era, May 28, 1997
...Sludge forum slated for Friday at Farm & Home
Center
..........Lancaster New Era, May 28, 1997
...Letter dated March 28, 1997 from NYC DEP Commissioner Joel A.
Miele
..........to Biosolids Citizens Advisory Committee
members
..........announcing hearing on April 9, 1997 re
implementation of Biosolids Management Plan
..........(which includes 15 yr
contract with Solid Waste Services, Manheim, PA)
...Pequea to mail letter stating sludge
concerns
..........Neighbors Southern Lancaster County, March 5,
1997
...Quarryville farmer plans sludge spread
..........Jed Reinert,
Neighbor Southern Lancaster County,
..........February 12, 1997
Study Sludge
Management
May 24, 1996, Lancaster New Era, Editorial
York Countians rebelling
against Lancaster Sludge
May 23, 1996, Lancaster New Era, by Ad
Crable
York
Countians rebelling against Lancaster Sludge continued: Sludge
Program
May 23, 1996, Lancaster New Era, by Ad Crable
...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 particularly note the
CONCLUSION
!!
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10,1997;
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2001;
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Index of Websites by Ben
Oostdam
LASA seeking some new ways to use sludge
...New York Sludge Here!
..Dear NYC: Keep Your Trash!
...Editorial in Lancaster New Era,
...Sludge, Government Spokespersons, Manheim - our
backyard
part
1 ........... part
2 
...DEP, A & M neighbors smell a problem
...Sludge testing bill gets House OK
...NYC sludge not coming - yet
...Commentary in the Lancaster New Era
...
State may appeal judge's order to lift sanctions
...
Judge suspends limits on Penn composting plant
...part 1 (incl. photograph of State Rep. John E. Barley)
...part 2
...Will new Pa order kill NYC sludge deal here? 
...Demos eye tough sludge controls; ...hit Rep. Barley
...Manheim sludge plant told to halve operations
...State will meet with compost plant critics
...Opponents blast NYC sludge in county
......Sludge (cont.)
...W.Va.warns county about sludge firm
...N.Y sludge, (cont.)
...EPA engineer: PA becoming 'pay toilet'
...Local plant to process 14% of all NYC sludge
...Sludge forum slated for Friday at Farm & Home
Center
...Letter dated March 28, 1997 from NYC DEP Commissioner Joel A.
Miele
...Quarryville farmer plans sludge spread
