Sludge Watch ==> Synagro - another massive sludge composting facility ready for KERN

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin :

Here we have it - two new massive sludge 'composting' facilities are now 
ramping up in California
1. the enclosed 400,000 ton sludge Synagro facility for Taft Kern County 
below and
2. the open air 400,000 sludge/greenwaste 'Nursery Products LLC' site for 
Hinkley an hour's drive to the east of Bakersfield in San Bernardino County.


Watch the news story  'from the KGET Dumping File':
http://www.kget.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=13652


Massive sewage sludge composting facility ready for business
Last Update: 12/15/2006 7:53:55 PM

Posted By: brynn galindo


Posted 12/15/06

BAKERSFIELD - A massive sewage sludge composting facility is ready for 
business near Taft.
Synagro’s South Kern Compost manufacturing plant is ramping up to start 
receiving biosolids from southland sanitation districts.

At full capacity, the facility will compost up to 400,000 tons of sludge 
annually, along with another 270,000 tons of green waste, most of it from 
agriculture, and could result in additional sludge imports from the 
southland.

Synagro officials said the plant is state-of-the-art, using the newest 
technologies to reduce harmful emissions and protect groundwater.

The project was met with considerable opposition in 2005, mostly from 
lawmakers and water officials who have taken a hard-line against the 
importation of treated sewage sludge from the southland.

But by the time opposition was organized, Synagro already had its permits in 
hand, making it difficult to derail the project.