Sludge Watch ==> Tennessee - Protests against Nashville Sludge Plans

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

Hard to believe...but just when many cities are looking to stop the land 
application of sewage sludge as too stinky, too filthy, too open to 
litigation costs, too polluting of ground water - crops- surface 
water...here the Nashville plant wants to START smearing industrially 
contaminated fecal filth on fields.

Trick or Treat ?  Let me think...
Trick!
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Environmental Activists Protest Metro Plans to Recycle Sewer Sludge as 
Fertilizer

by Rachel Sumner
Email: rachelsumner at excite.com
30 Oct 2006

Nashville, TN: There is a new Metro Water & Sewer facility under 
construction and due to open in fall of 2007, and it is moving in the 
direction of recycling sludge as fertilizer to be applied on grazing land, 
cropland and orchards. Bruce Wood, an environmental activist, with Bring 
Urban Recycling to Nashville Today warns, "Do not be tricked into believing 
this is a treat. Citizens must educate themselves on this issue and demand 
that city leaders not allow this to happen." Members of BURNT, the Green 
Party and concerned citizens will gather on Tuesday October 31, 2006 at 3 
p.m. at the Sewage Treatment Facility, Metro Water Department at 1600 2nd 
Avenue North (37208) and Cement Plant Road to protest with the theme 'No 
More "Tricks" That Sewer Sludge Is a "Treat"'
It is a frightening fact that Nashville is moving in the direction of 
recycling sludge into fertilizer. Unfortunately, this fertilizer contains 
heavy metals and other nasty surprises that could end up on your dinner 
plate. This is why Halloween is a perfect day to protest, learn about the 
risks and the alternatives.

In a November, 1990 edition of U.S. Federal Register, the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) said this about sewer sludge, "typically, these 
constituents may include volatiles, organic solids, nutrients, 
disease-causing pathogenic organisms (bacteria, virus, etc.), heavy metals 
and inorganic ions, and toxic organic chemicals from industrial wastes, 
household chemicals and pesticides.'

Quoting from Wendy Priesnitz award winning article, 'The Real Dirt on Sewage 
Sludge' 'In fact there are thousands of substances that can be found in 
typical sewage sludge, including any of the 100,000 or so chemicals produced 
and used in industrialized nations, many of which illegally end up in 
sewers. Anything dumped into the sewers and removed by treatment becomes 
sludge.'

For more IN_DEPTH INFROMATION about sludge recycling:

1.) National Sludge Alliance web site
http://www.ejnet.org/sludge/

2.) http://www.burnt-tn.org/news?id=35187
Article Excrement Happens by local activist Sharon Force.
Sharon has researched this issue! Read about what Nashville plans to do, the 
risks and what better solutions exist for Nashville. (She will be at the 
protest so you can ask her questions!)

2.) http://www.ijoeh.com/pfds/IJOEH_1104_Snyder.pdf
"The Dirty Work of Promoting 'Recycling' of America's Sewage Sludge" by Dr. 
Caroline Snyder; from the International Journal of Occupational 
Environmental Health 2005;11:415-427

3.) http://www.ejnet.org/sludge/nsa/nsa113.html
Is it Toxic Sludge or Cow Manure Poisoning Our Food Supply?

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROTEST CONTACT:
CHRIS LUGO--615-593-0304 chris4senate (at) gmail.com or BURNT-BRUCE 
WOOD--615-327-8515 burnt.tn (at) gmail.com

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/16162/index.php