Sludge Watch ==> Re: Sludgewatch-l Digest, Vol 19, Issue 38

[subodh kumar]

Sir,
Energy Plantations, ie, planting of specific trees in lands filled
with Sludge and fly ash may be one way to involve nature in the
recycling of what the society and nations with  'modern civilization
and progress' has brought upon itself. I wonder if any efforts and or
research is available on this strategy.
Subodhkumar

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>    1. Calif: Kern County Officials Evaluate Fly Ash     Clean Up
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> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:32:25 +0000
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> Subject: Sludge Watch ==>  Calif: Kern County Officials Evaluate Fly
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> Kern County Officials Evaluate Fly Ash Clean-Up Efforts  By: Bill Curtis
> 6:23 AM Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
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> On Wednesday evening, Senator Dean Florez, D-Shafter, will hold a hearing in
> Wasco to update the community on efforts to dispose of a hazardous substance
> known as "fly ash" which was trucked into the community for years by the
> City of Oxnard and spread on Kern County fields.
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> Since 1995, the City of Oxnard and USA Transport have had an agreement to
> dispose of sewage sludge on 1,240 acres of land near Wasco. The sludge was
> mixed with fly ash, which was touted as a "treatment" for sludge until early
> this year, when the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) informed
> Kern County officials, Oxnard and USA Transport that the material was in
> fact a hazardous substance which must be disposed of accordingly.
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> The City of Oxnard stated that it "fully intends to satisfy its
> responsibilities as a property." However, they have since asked DTSC to
> retest the fly ash and declined to participate in Wednesday's hearing on the
> issue. The City of Oxnard is required to truck the fly ash away by June 27
> or face fines of $3,000 per day.
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> Panelists will include representatives of the Kern County agencies charged
> with resource management, environmental health, and engineering and survey
> services in the community, as well as Kern County Supervisor Ray Watson, who
> represents the Fourth District.
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> Wednesday's hearing will be held from 5-7 p.m. in the Wasco City Council
> Chambers, located at 746 8th Street in Wasco.
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> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:29:31 +0000
> From: <maureen.reilly at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Sludge Watch ==>  Toronto's Sludge Not Welcome in Michigan
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> I did mention this morning that it was Toronto's sewage sludge that was
> causing the stink?
> Things have moved quickly since this morning...
>
> While Toronto's trash is still welcome to cross into the US, after August
> 1st, Toronto's sewage sludge has had its passport revoked.  We will have to
> keep it here...somewhere...
>
> So ..... where will Toronto stick it?
>
> Toronto has no storage capacity...the sludge stank up the open unlined
> sludge lagoon in Halton  (W.A. Bill Johnson Biosolids Management Centre)
> ,....and there are still lawsuits from chronic illnesses of the neighbors
> over that escapade.  There is a proposal for a sludge biomass energy plant
> in Hamilton,..to use it for fuel in a renewable energy power plant.  That
> plant is still in the permitting stages.   There is very very little
> capacity anywhere else in the system right now for storage or incineration
> or biomass power generation.
>
> And farmers won't take up this tonnage  (we would need about 22,000 acres of
> land that was all over a kilometer away from a school, church, village or
> hospital, daycare etc.....)  The City  of Toronto has been claiming that
> their sludge is going to farm fields at 50% and then 100% 'beneficial use
> recycling'.  As if !!!
>
> The truth is that about 5 % of Toronto sludge, if that, is going to
> farmland.
>
> And no one was buying the sludge pellets ... remember..the ones that went
> into spontaneous combustion and burned down the Couse Ltd storage site and
> burned for days in farmers fields in York Durham District?  The pelletizer
> that burned down altogether one summer night?  Those Toronto sludge pellets
> were also illegally distributed and many were gathered up and disposed into
> a landfill.  See the pellet non compliance with the Fertilizer
> Act...*attached file.  It is the Ministry of Environment Order not to
> release the pellets from the Sewage Treatment Plant si
>
> Farmers use of sludge has been pretty much dropping steadily ...and the
> deaths in Walkerton  provided a graphic example of how pathogenic waste can
> move into groundwater and kill people who have drinking water wells.
>
> Not a strong selling point for land applying sludge.
>
> So the sludge opera continues....watch Toronto ...and the Ontario Government
> ....squirm.
>
> ........................................................................................
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> Toronto's sludge not welcome in Michigan
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> TORONTO (CP) - A Michigan landfill site is turning up its nose at Toronto's
> treated sewage sludge.
>
> The Carleton Farms facility will no longer accept the waste after August 1
> because locals who live in the area are complaining about the smell,
> spokesperson Will Flower said Wednesday.
>
> "We came to a business decision not to accept sludge at the landfill,"
> Flower said.
>
> The landfill had been reviewing its sludge intake since April, when a group
> of residents raised a stink at a public hearing.
>
> But Toronto works committee chairman Shelley Carrol said she only learned of
> the decision today.
>
> "If they've got a hard date, I'm kind of surprised we haven't got it,"
> Carrol said.
>
> She could not say where Toronto would take its sludge after August.
>
> Flower said the landfill was giving 60 days notice to allow municipalities,
> including Detroit and Toronto, time to find someplace else to dispose of the
> sludge.
>
> The landfill, which is seeking to expand, is also facing a $25,000
> class-action lawsuit over the smell, but Flower said it had nothing to do
> with the decision.
>
> "We have an obligation to work with our neighbours and protect those
> neighbours," Flower said.
>
> "In this case we are foregoing economic opportunities in exchange for
> preserving a good relationship with our neighbours."
>
> The change takes effect in August, although the landfill will continue to
> accept Toronto's trash.
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Subodh Kumar