Sludge Watch ==> Barstow Calif Letter - Don't let Nursery Products into Hinkley

[maureen.reilly at sympatico.ca]

Barstow
Desert Dispatch
Letters to the Editor
June 16, 2006


*Don’t let Nursery Products in Hinkley

*Attention Barstow!

Nursery Products LLC plans shipping over 500 trucks a day of Los Angeles 
sewage sludge to a 160 acre site just west of Hinkley. This is the same 
business ordered out of Adelanto due to stench, flies, and contaminate risk, 
and later chased away from Newberry Springs.
Placing all this sewage between Harper Lake and the Mojave River was pure 
genius.
What better way to insure ground water contamination of the entire lower 
Mojave River Valley to Barstow and on to Newberry Springs. The prevailing 
westerly winds sending stench, flies, and bacteria over all.


Water will be needed to control dust and make compost. What better way to 
consume millions of gallons of precious water before reaching the desert 
communities that deserve its resource most.
Hinkley is very concerned — the chromium 6 nightmare is still lingering. I 
guess its good business to prey upon the weary, sick and injured. Good 
business to convert conservation land for wildlife into a health risk for 
thousands of people, dumping big city problems on others. The open lands 
west of Hinkley should be left alone, their conservation serving to protect 
the groundwater sources converging between the Mojave River and Harper Lake.

What’s next? Los Angeles trash, more toxins, or tearing every hill down to 
feed dusty cement kilns?
Adelanto said no, Newberry Springs said no, and I say no to Nursery Products 
LLC in or near Hinkley. And if Barstow is smart its citizens will say no 
too.

Mark Orr
Hinkley