Sludge Watch ==> Toronto Escapes Poop "Nail-Biter" - smears it here and there

[maureen.reilly at sympatico.ca]

Sludgewatch Admin:

Huh?  Toronto has never managed to smear more than 10% of its sludge on 
farmland.
So...in the middle of a rural sludge boycott we suddenly found some land to 
smear sludge on?

One hundred percent of some of the stinkiest toilet tailings in North 
America?  What? Did Toronto buy a rural county? We are now smearing sludge 
outside Ontario?

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http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2006/07/18/1689997-sun.html


July 18, 2006

City escapes poop 'nail-biter'
By ROB GRANATSTEIN

Toronto has escaped the deep doo-doo.

The city had until Aug. 1 to stop shipping its 15 truckloads a day of 
treated sewage sludge to Michigan, and has found a way out just in time.

"I know it's been a nail-biter but it looks like we'll be okay," Shelley 
Carroll, chairman of the city's works committee, said yesterday.

For the rest of the summer the city's found enough takers to spread the 15 
trucks of poop produced every day as fertilizer on land in Ontario and 
beyond.

"We can do a couple of trucks here and there," Carroll said.

A longer-term solution will be announced soon, she said.