Sludge Watch ==> Virginia - Biosolids are dangerous to land

[Maureen Reilly]

Biosolids are dangerous to land

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Altavista Journal, Virginia

This poisonous stinking mess had the right name when it first came about, 
"toxic human waste sludge."

The General Assembly has now shifted control to the Department of 
Environmental Quality as of Jan. 1.

The DEQ cannot tell any person that this mess will not cause harm to them. 
If this mess poisons cattle and contaminates milk in other states, it could 
do the same thing here in Virginia, and no doubt it will happen here.

Running this mess through treatment plants will not help at all; something 
poisonous stays poisonous, any moron knows that. Most of this mess will 
never see a treatment plant anyway, once it starts being spread on land.

I feel our county supervisors could stop this mess from coming into the 
county, but I guess they are just turning their backs on the taxpayers. I 
hope everyone in Virginia will read the next part and maybe they will wake 
up and do something before it is too late.

A farmer in Georgia whose land was poisoned by "sludge" had hundreds of cows 
to die. A neighbor of his that sold milk on the market was checked out and 
the milk he sold contained "thallium," an element once used as rat poison. 
More of the "sludge" was checked and was found to contain levels of arsenic, 
toxic heavy metals and PCBs, two to 2,500 times federal health standards.





Also, 1,730 acres of land he wanted to plant in corn and cotton to feed his 
herd were also poisoned.

Selling this mess to farmers is cheaper for the government than to bury it.

I know farmers have a rough time making ends meet, but we don't need this 
poisonous, stinking, filthy mess on land in Virginia.

Last year, Virginia imported 7.3 million tons of trash from New York and 
other states, and now they are importing the rest of their dirty stinking, 
filthy mess.

I feel sorry for our younger generation coming on, to have to live in a 
dirty, filthy, stinking state.

Everyone better start doing something about it now. What would you do if 
your child drank contaminated milk at school and died? You would say I 
wished I had done something about it before this happened.

Everybody needs to do something now. I called my supervisor, but did no 
good.

I have papers to prove what I write is the truth.

Elton Thurman

Gladys