Sludge Watch ==> ALERT: Florida - Bay County to spread about 8, 000 tons of military sludge cake

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

This project needs to be scrutinized!!
Military bases often have very very high levels of heavy metals and other 
contaminants in their sludge.

Review needed here!!

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Sneads to take on Bay County sludge


By DEBORAH BUCKHALTER  / Floridan Staff Writer
July 7, 2007



The Town of Sneads is taking on a new waste customer, a Bay County business 
whose sludge cannot be placed in any facility in that jurisdiction.
Sneads City Manager Ed Kilpatrick confirmed Thursday that the Bay County 
Commission had accepted the town's bid to receive sludge dredged from the 
Military Point Industrial Wastewater Lagoon, which is part of St. Andrews 
Bay.

Smurfitt Stone, the paper-container mill that generates the material, will 
be paying Sneads for the service. Bay County brokered the deal as the 
governing entity involved.

A private company will dredge the waste from the lagoon and haul it here for 
application on a patch of land set aside for residue such as sludge.

It will not be placed on the city's main sprayfields, which receive treated 
wastewater from households and the Apalachee Correctional Institution just 
east of Sneads.

The city is to receive approximately 2,000 "dry tons" of the material under 
the contract, and will be paid $102.40 per dry ton to take it and apply it 
to the land. The material will arrive in what was described by Bay County 
officials as a "cake-like" consistency, to be spread over the city's residue 
fields.

According to Kilpatrick, the city has approximately 300 acres of land set 
aside for such materials.

The city already receives some sludge under another contract, this one with 
ICA. That company collects sludge from septic tanks at rest stops along 
Interstate 10.

The contract with Bay County for the Military Point sludge covers a period 
of a year, and can be renewed for a longer period. Bay County can withdraw 
from the deal with 30 days notice, and Sneads can withdraw with 90 days 
notice if things don't work out, Kilpatrick said.

According to the sludge report on the material Sneads will receive, it 
contains some of the following: ammonia, potassium, arsenic, cadmium, 
copper, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, and several other materials. They are 
all in levels far below the limits allowed in federal sludge regulations.

Kilpatrick said he believes taking the sludge is an appropriate step for the 
city, adding that the material must meet state guidelines for the town to 
accept it.

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