CLASS A SLUDGE PRODUCTS ARE DANGEROUS -- SILENT SLUDGE VICTIMS
COMPOST IS NOT SAFE
Contaminated Class A Compost Victims -- Schools -etc. INDEX
EPA's Biosolids Technology Fact Sheet Use of Composting for Biosolids Management
EPA says its safe, except for the disadvantages
California -- “From a distance, Honey Bucket looks like any other truck yard. Incoming haulers put their load
on a conveyor belt, where it's mixed with pathogen-killing powders (??) and dropped into truck beds
headed for the fields. Spreaders fling the mixture high into the air and let it settle on the ground. (Note:
This description of pathogen treatment does not comply with any US EPA authorized Class A pathogen
reduction methods described in 40 CFR Part 503
CALIFORNIA – VICTIM SUFFERS DIZZY SPELLS, BREATHING PROBLEMS, BLEEDING SORES ON ARMS AND
FACE, SEVERE SINUS INFECTION, PNEUMONIA/BRONCHITIS FROM EXPOSURE TO CLASS A SEWAGE SLUDGE
BIOSOLIDS COMPOST.
D.C. – AUGUST 2002 – DIRECTOR OF AMERICAN NURSERY & LANDSCAPE ASSOC. GETS STAPHYLOCOCCUS
AUREUS INFECTION OF HIS SKIN FROM CLASS A SLUDGE/COMPOST – RECOMMENDS USE OF DUST MASK
AND GLOVES WHEN HANDLING CLASS A SLUDGE
Indiana – Fort Wayne - heavy metals and fecal coliform in the Class A sludge “biosolids” being distributed
to public ? “The samples in January and June failed the fecal coliform tests but passed for salmonella . . . “
MAINE – NEIGHBORING FARM SPREADS CLASS A SEWAGE SLUDGE – NO PERMIT REQUIRED – ROOSTER AND
TWO HENS DIE, VICTIMS SUFFER HEADACHES AND NAUSEA
MARYLAND – CLASS A SEWAGE SLUDGE SPREAD ON CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND – KIDS SUFFER
STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTIONS, SKIN LESIONS, BRONCHIAL PNEUMONIA
NEW BEDFORD, MASS.– UNSTABLE, PATHOGENIC CLASS A SLUDGE COMPOST FROM MERRIMACK, NH, &
BRISTOL, RI, - HIGH IN FECAL COLIFORM – SPREAD AT MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHICH IS BUILT OVER HAZARDOUS
WASTE DUMP, TO BE OCCUPIED BY YOUNG CHILDREN . .
MANCHESTER UNION LEADER, NH - MAY 24, 2000 - SLUDGE COMPOST SICKENS CHILDREN AND TEACHERS -
BFI SAYS "IT'S NOT SLUDGE ANYMORE" !!
OHIO – TOLEDO – N-VIRO CLASS A SEWAGE SLUDGE – FECAL COLIFORM IN SAMPLE: “it's the smell. "It's
like putting your head in a septic tank,'' the Swanton Township woman said. "It's like ammonia, fish, dead
rats. It makes your throat burn and makes your eyes water."
PENNSYLVANIA – APRIL, 2005 - CLASS A SLUDGE – E-COLI IN WELLS – SMELL SICKENING, EMPLOYEES
COMPLAINING OF HEADACHES AND NAUSEA -- .we have had our State Rep..Harhart...DEP and Twsp officials
here only to be told Class A has no restrictions and we are to live with it..
WASHINGTON – GROUNDSKEEPER SUFFERS BLOODY NOSE, FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS, HEADACHES, RASHES,
DIARRHEA, HAIR LOSS, FATIGUE AND ALLERGY INDUCED ACUTE ASTHMATIC ATTACK AFTER EXPOSURE TO
CLASS A SEWAGE SLUDGE BIOSOLIDS COMPOST