Sludge Watch ==> Sludge could be smelled 7 miles away....Will sludge return to Carleton Landfill?

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

If you can smell it - then some gases and/or 
particulate/bacteria/bioaerosols  from the sludge is entering your body.

Since its sludge was deemed too smelly for this US landfill, Toronto has 
stepped up its program
to smear its sludge on Ontario farm fields.  Toronto is forcing these 
unacceptable adverse effectson Ontario residents.  People like Toronto-based 
Karen Buck and Karey Shinn  - so-called  Safe Sewage; have been keeping up 
the pressure on the City of Toronto to force rural communities to suffer 
Toronto sludge in its nastiest - most pathogenic form.   This approach  - 
land application of Toronto's 2 million fecal coliform per gram sludge - 
can hurt rural residents by causing contamination of rural drinking water 
wells, track sludge pathogens into homes through pets and run off and road 
spillage,  and increase contamination of the  grain, meat and milk we 
consume.

Toronto has started a new stakeholder group to talk about sludge.  But did 
they invite farmers and rural residents to the table?  Food safety 
organizations? Residents from near Toronto's new landfill 2 hours drive away 
in London?   No.
This is another self serving cooked-up committee - appointed at the sole 
invitation of the City of Toronto.


We see cities force their  industrial and fecal pollutants on rural food 
production lands so that the urban area can call itself  'green' .  It is 
not green.  It is just self-serving.
The Mayor of Los Angeles and the Mayor of Toronto have this in common.  They 
want to be considered Green Friendly.  Trucking sludge to
rural Kern  County or Hinkley or Arizona or rural Ontario to smear on farm 
neighbors doesn't cut it.


Sludgewatch word for the day:
 Hypocrisy:

Definition:  Hypocrisy is the act of pretending or claiming to have beliefs, 
feelings, or virtues that one does not truly possess or practice.
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http://www.bellevilleview.com/stories/111606/loc_20061116006.shtml


 Landfill might accept sludge again

Sludge would be treated off-site
By Francesca Chilargi
Heritage Newspapers, Belleville View, MI

Carleton Farms Landfill might start accepting human waste sludge again in 
the future, but only if it is treated elsewhere first.
That means trucks carrying untreated human waste won't be barreling through 
neighboring communities anytime soon.
"The technology exists for the plants to eliminate the odors and water from 
the sludge, and if the treatment plants decide to make that investment, we 
would like to participate in the disposal of that material," said Matthew 
Neely, vice president of Republic Services, owners of the landfill.
On Aug. 1, the landfill stopped accepting untreated sludge from Detroit, 
Wyandotte and the Canadian cities of Toronto and Windsor.
The landfill's owners have decided not to invest in a facility to treat the 
waste, instead leaving that job to each community.
"The municipalities are in the best position to deal with these issues by 
treating the sludge at the (waste- water treatment plants) prior to 
disposal," according to a letter from Neely to township officials.

The multimillion-dollar business of accepting the untreated sludge created 
more issues than it was worth, Republic officials have said.
The problems included foul odor from the site infiltrating nearby 
neighborhoods and communities such as Huron Township and spillage of the 
waste during transportation.
"The odor it generated could be smelled five to seven miles away (from the 
site)," Huron Township Supervisor John Mitchell said.
In March 2005, spills in Huron Township and Flat Rock resulted in costly 
cleanups in both municipalities.

Township officials and residents were instrumental in stopping the untreated 
waste, Mitchell said.


"Just stopping the sludge from coming into Carleton Farms has been a big 
improvement for the township and other surrounding communities," Mitchell 
said. "I think it was a great improvement and a great accomplishment by 
Huron Township that was never done before."
Because Huron Township didn't have any jurisdiction over the landfill, it 
worked with the Wayne County Department of Environment and the state 
Department of Environmental Quality to ensure that the landfill is in 
compliance with the law. The DEQ issued an administrative order mandating 
that the landfill stop accepting untreated sludge.

In June, all parties reached an agreement stipulating that the landfill 
could not take sludge in the previous form, Mitchell said.
The township had issued tickets to the landfill through the county for 
violation of excessive odor, he said. As part of the agreement, the tickets 
were discarded.