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Sludge Facts and Data:
"The S-Word" (Sewer Sludge):
How Carlyle Group-owned Synagro is Hurting Our
Communities. 
"With little fanfare, in April of 2007 Washington D.C.-based Carlyle
Group completed its buyout of Synagro Technologies, Inc. for $772 million. Part
of a fund dedicated to purchasing critical infrastructure, Carlyle calls
investments like these, "A true win-win proposition." But when it
comes to Synagro and its products, communities stand to lose."
More on this.... (Click here)
Read the Environmental Concerns. See the
Leaflet and the Press
Release.
Death of a Farm
Sewage sludge from the Augusta/Richmond County
Wastewater Treatment Plant is destroying the award-winning Boyceland dairy. For
a free CD of the complete document contact info@sludgefacts.org. Document
93
from www.SludgeFacts.Org
Court Case Documents:
Read the Court document - (Click here) 0.5 MB .pdf
Recent qui tam lawsuit alleges fraud against the federal government. It alleges that EPA, Georgia local government agencies, and the sludge industry conspired to knowingly use fraudulent data in peer-reviewed studies to support sludge use, and defeat a farmers lawsuit claiming sludge destroyed his dairy farm. The farmer eventually prevailed. March 29, 2006
VIRGINIA - COMPLAINT
Read the Court document - (click here) 0.4 MB .pdf
The Wyatt and Gregory families have filed suit against Sussex Surry and Synagro in Surry County, Virginia in response to spreading and spraying of sludge on a 1300 acre forest. November, 2006.
CALIFORNIA - COMPLAINT
Read the Court document - (click
here)
0.1 MB .pdf
The City of Los Angeles and other have filed suit
against Kern County for banning sludge application. August 15, 2006.
Read the Court document - (click
here) 1.9 MB .pdf
Sewage treatment plant sued - didn't enforce
industrial pretreatment standards -pollutants harm dairies - government
defrauded by false certifications. June 15, 2005
TENNESSEE - COMPLAINT
Read the Court document - (click
here) 2.2 MB .pdf
Filed by Danny Jones against Erwin Utility
District. The conservator for Michael Seth Jones is suing farmers, a municipal utility,
and the manager of the Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant. Plaintiff
alleges wrongful acts, conduct, and breaches of common law and statutory
duties amounting to negligence, public nuisance and product liability.
FLORIDA - COMPLAINT - SLUDGE VICTIMS SUE
Read the Court document - (click here)
National Justice filed suit on December 11, 2002,
on behalf of 17 DeSoto County Florida residents who allege health problems
from dumping. Plaintiffs are suing two sludge companies and five
ranchers. Plaintiffs also allege trespassing because sludge fouls the air,
water, reduces property values and is a public nuisance.
Editorial
"Health still concern in use of sludge" Lynchburg News
& Advance Sunday, August 29, 2004
http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=
Common%2FMGArticle%2FPrintVersion&c=MGArticle&cid=
1031777602689&image=newsadvance80x60.gif&oasDN=newsadvance.com
Replies
to above Editorial: (click here)
EPA Documents:
1)
Start at http://cascade.epa.gov/RightSite/dk_public_home.htm.
Click "Quick Search" on the left. Fill in "OW-2003-0006" in
the space provided and click search. Now click the left column on
OW-2003-0006. Scroll down to the bottom and click next,
B - Instructions to send your comments: Comments can be
e-mailed, or attachments sent to ow-docket@epa.gov
Attention: OW 2003-0006 The
public submissions start with # 33 and go to # 114 as of July 30, 2003.
"EPA Response to NRC Recommendations Docket ID OW-2003-0006",
Response by Barbara Rubin, Loudoun NATS, June 12, 2003
(click here)
"Wretched Excess"
Houston
Press by Josh Harkinson March 31, 2005 entitled "Wretched
Excess" (click here)
EPA's Sewage Sludge Notice
"Standards
for the Use or Disposal of Sewage Sludge; Agency Response to the National
Research Council Report on Biosolids Applied to Land and the Results of EPA's
Review of Existing Sewage Sludge Regulations" OW-2003-0006, April 9, 2003.
Public comments compiled by LoudounNATS (click here)
Comments by California Farm Bureau (click here)
Entire document from EPA (click here)
The public comment period to respond to the NRC/EPA recommendations on land
application policies has been extended to August 8.
A - Instructions to read all comments: Either
dk_docket_collection&cid=OW-2003-0006&ShowList=items&Action=view
Letter replies from Kraft Food, Del
Monte, Campbell Food and Heinz regarding use of sludge
May 2004, 4
pages (click here)
Numerous letter from over 20 food
growers regarding their use of sludge
Dated from 1980 and 1990's,
23
pages (click here)
Testimony
of David L. Lewis, Ph.D.
Hearing by the Committee on Resources,
Subcommittee
on Energy and Minerals U.S. House of Representatives
Policy
of the National Farmers Union
Feb. 28 – March 3, 2003
From Page 64 of 112:
Nuclear, Radioactive, and Toxic Wastes
"We urge enactment and vigorous enforcement of legislation, both
federal and state, to prohibit dumping of nuclear, radioactive, toxic and other
hazardous wastes in the United States without detoxification. We also encourage
development of hazardous waste disposal methods with stricter enforcement of
laws on transporting, handling and disposal of hazardous waste. The
current practices of disposing hazardous wastes in existing landfills and
surface mine sites, spreading hazardous wastes and class B biosolids on land
surfaces, and injecting hazardous wastes in deep-well sites should be
discontinued. Alternative disposal sites should be identified which
eliminate the risk of surface and groundwater contamination, protect the health
and safety of citizens, and protect the soil and water of agricultural lands,
from which the nation’s food is produced. Final decision-making authority for
determining disposal sites and methods must be vested in the citizens who are
directly affected by the site. We urge the U.S. military and government to seek
disposal for chemical weapons that insure the health of nearby communities,
agricultural markets and the environment."
http://www.nfu.org/documents/policy/2003_nfu_policy.pdf