Sludge Watch ==> Indianapolis Family Splattered with Sewage

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

This family needs to see a physician pronto.
They need to have their car commercially detailed, and inspected by public 
health, and their clothing and possessions commercially laundered!

And they need to know exactly where this sludge came from, and where it was 
going.  They need to test it for toxins.

They need compensation.


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Family Splattered With Sewage

June 7, 2007




INDIANAPOLIS -- A dump truck hauling sewage sludge stopped quickly to avoid 
an accident in Indianapolis Thursday morning and, when its load shifted, a 
large amount of the sewage rushed over the back of the truck and onto a 
family’s minivan.

A family of four from Michigan said some of the sludge made it inside their 
vehicle and onto their bodies.

“I’m worried,” passenger Kimberly Shanklin said. “That’s human feces and it 
got on myself and my children. So, yeah, I’m concerned. That could be a 
lifetime threat to us.”


The truck did not have anything covering its load since it is not a 
requirement in Indiana. Officials said the sludge is 20-25 years old and 
contains some human waste but shouldn’t be harmful to the van’s occupants.

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