Sludge Watch ==> Al's antics - Rubin announces no sludge compost health complaints - ever!

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin

Listening to KSZL radio I just heard Al Rubin do a talk show on Nursery
Products proposed sludge site in Hinkley. Al is the former EPA sludge
coordinator. Now retired he is  a consultant to the sludge industry.

Today he was on the radio in the pay of  Nursery Products telling the
Barstowand Hinkley   that  there has never been a
health complaint related to a sludge compost site or from a sludge compost
product.  Only land application of sludge generated any health complaints.
That is what he told the radio audience today.

What?

Al told a 2003 meeting of the California Solano County Board of
Supervisors that he had a stack of health complaints about sludge that was 2
feet high. The transcript is on the web.


Even though he received, when in EPA, 3 or 4 health complaints about sludge
every
day he never launched an investigation into a single complant.  That way he
can say there are no documented health complaints!

Now a paid consultant to Nursery Products he somehow has
forgotten the over 1200 impacted Adelanto residents who were party to health
complaints about the Nursery Products Adelanto operation.  That is the
number of people listed in the Nursery Products complaint files at the
Environmental Health Department of San Bernardino County.  Go look at the
health complaints yourself. I did.

Al also  forgot about the Center for Disease
Control (CDC) investigation of the complaint of Doug Olson.
www.ehib.org/projects/NurseryLetter.pdf

But he knew about the complaints.
http://mailman.cloudnet.com/pipermail/compost/2006-August/014328.html


And Chris Seney- manager for the Nursery Products Adelanto  site when it
generated all these health complaints ...eager to misinform the public went
along with Al Rubins prevarication.

Although this was supposted to be a phone in show...no one was allowed to 
phone in.
When you phoned in to the radio show the secretary said she can't put the 
call on air 'because there is a doctor on the line" Just so. Spin Doctor Al 
Rubin crowded the phone in line for the whole show so no one else could go 
on air with questions.

Does anyone on Sludge Watch want to write to the San Bernardino County Board
of Supervisors and tell them about the problems they have had from sludge
compost or from a sludge compost site?


If you want, we can post them on Sludge Watch.  I know Al Rubin reads that.

Get your copy of Al Rubin's latest memory lapses about sludge from
KSZL radio 760-256-2121


Get a copy of the show and listen for yourself to the things he says when he
thinks you are not listening. The show ran Feb 21 2007 at 10 am Pacific
time.

Barstow California




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As to the illness issue of composting and sewage sludge, NIOSH has written
on this extensively.