Sewage sludge may be shipped to W. Kentucky

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Sewage sludge may be shipped to W. Kentucky
Material's odor led to complaints

By James Bruggers
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The Courier-Journal

Nashville's partially treated sewage sludge, which has raised a stink in Tennessee because of strong odors, may be headed to Western Kentucky.

Kentucky regulators are weighing whether to allow as much as 500 tons of sludge a day to be sent from two Nashville wastewater treatment plants to a rural corner of Hopkins County, about 14 miles south of Madisonville, where it would be buried for final treatment and later dug up and used to help reclaim strip-mined land.
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State environmental officials yesterday were unavailable to answer questions about the proposal, which was received in their offices on March 2 from a partnership that includes two former high-ranking environmental officials: Greer Tidwell, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator, and Charles W. Martin, a former deputy secretary of Kentucky's environmental cabinet. Coal mine operator Don Bowles owns the land that includes the 300 acres where the sludge would go for treatment.
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In this case, he said his concerns include the potential for toxic metals in the sludge to get into local groundwater supplies -- especially because of the fractured nature of the mined-over land where the material would go.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050319/NEWS01/503190375/1008/NEWS01

[donco6]

1. I know a ranch in Texas that could use that

Maybe Shrubby won't have to cut so much sagebrush.

[Spinzonner]

2. I think it has all the sludge it needs with Chimpy there

[biftonnorton]

3. This makes sense

"In this case, he said his concerns include the potential for toxic metals in the sludge to get into local groundwater supplies -- especially because of the fractured nature of the mined-over land where the material would go."

Ah, a true case of a mined-over matter.

[underpants]

4. BOOO! BAD BOOOOOOOOO!

My response to the headline was going to be:

I couldn't think of a better place

[cornermouse]

5. Thanks for the warning.

I have been thinking about Kentucky and Tennessee as a potential vacation.

[Toots]

6. Red States being sent a pile of shit... I love it

Nevada getting radioactive material and Kentucky getting shit.... Hey sounds like voters in Kentucky are getting what they voted for...