"SLUDGE TRUCKS - examples of spills, accidents, problems, incidents from around the country"
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FLORIDA
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:22 AM
Subject: Florida, Pasco Police reports, Sludge spill closes section of U.S. 41
http://www.sptimes.com/News/121301/Pasco/Police_reports.shtml
Police reports
By Times staff writers
© St. Petersburg Times,
published December 13, 2001
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Sludge spill closes section of U.S. 41
LAND O'LAKES -- A dump truck filled with sludge spilled its load early Wednesday on U.S. 41, causing a section of the
heavily traveled road to shut down for hours.
Officials said the accident happened about 3:30 a.m. near Barcelona Road. The spill spread north to Tower Road.
Sheriff's deputies closed the two-lane road for more than six hours while workers rinsed dirt from the highway. The
road reopened about 9:45 a.m.
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CANADA
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From: "Maureen Reilly" <maureen.reilly@sympatico.ca>
To: <Sludgewatch-l@list.web.net>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:46 PM
Subject: Sludge Watch ==> Ontario: Spill : 22-38,000 litres of sewage sludge
dumped from overturned truck
Sludgewatch Admin:
The driver of this truck lost control and the truck ended up rolled over
onto to its roof, as the 38,100 litres of liquid sewage sludge from
Kitchener drained into an alfalfa field.
The Ministry of the Environment never attended the accident scene. No
neighbours were notified to test their wells. The use of water on top of the
spill is likely to have driven the liquid sewage contamination further down
toward the aquifer.
As to the suggestion that they could 'vaccum up the sludge'...its
impossible. The sludge went into the alfalfa field...and it couldn't be
vacuumed after it soaked into the soil. THe land owner was not notified by
either the MOE nor the Health Unit. It is not clear how the Ministry of the
Environment can assess a spill without being present, and what criteria are
used to determine clean up and neighbour notification requirements.
The Ministry says that the Health Unit is responsible to respond to health
concerns. The Health Unit says it is the responsibility of the Ministry of
the Environment to address those concerns.
The Health Unit is investigating. Sound like Walkerton?
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TEXAS
http://www.dailysentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/10/09/sewage_wreck.html
Jordan said he was uncertain of the exact classification of the waste spill, but said it could be considered an
environmental hazard, and that the proper agencies were working to form a clean-up plan
Matthew Stoff/The Daily Sentinel
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A sewage truck leaks onto the south loop as emergency workers evaluate the scene.
Sewage truck rolls over on loop, spills
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By Matthew Stoff
Sentinel staff
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
The noxious odor of sewage permeated the scene as Nacogdoches Police and Fire Department workers considered
how to roll over a wrecked tanker truck leaking several thousand gallons of sludge into a ditch on the south loop
shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday.
Nacogdoches Police Officer James Jordan confirmed that "the tanker was fully loaded," but did not know what caused
the accident.
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ARIZONA
http://www.parkerpioneer.net/articles/2007/09/10/news/parker02.txt
La Paz loses Yakima case
By John Gutekunst
Monday, September 10, 2007 3:40 PM MST
The jury has spoken in the case of La Paz County v. Yakima Compost Co. After a 10-day trial over three weeks, the
jury found in favor of Yakima and awarded them $9.2 million in damages.
The verdict was handed down on Sept. 4 in La Paz County Superior Court.
maderthanhell wrote on Sep 11, 2007 6:50 AM:
" so we can't mention name's so i won't. i live in district 3 i was driving down 60 near brenda when synagro had a truck
that had spilled sluge all over the road. our district supervisor who is still there was standing with the truck driver
laughing and having a good old time. i have read or heard nothing regarding clean up of the spill or testing of the site.
oh ya i forgot only yakima's sludge is the problem...just another example of the double standard attached to sludge in
La Paz County and shows that she knows that sludge is safe to handle. "
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MASSACHUSETTS
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:29 AM
Subject: MASSACHUSETTS TRUCK LEAKS SLUDGE on highways - Mass. sludge headed for Portland, Maine
"Ventimiglia said the Gloucester treatment plant ships waste out of town for further treatment about once a month.
The Sam's Transportation truck was taking the load to a waste facility in Portland, Maine, he said, but the driver had
said he intended to fix the latch in Georgetown before completing the journey."
http://www.newburyportnews.com:80/punews/local_story_212232957.html
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Truck trails smelly sludge from Gloucester to Rowley
By Patrick Anderson and Michael Farrell
Staff writers
The odor of sewage hung in the air along Route 133 from Gloucester to Rowley for several hours yesterday after a
truck hauling human waste from the city's sewage treatment plant leaked, spilling noxious liquid over the roadway.
Workers at the Essex Avenue plant warned the driver of the truck, owned by Sam's Transportation Inc. of
Georgetown, that latches on the vehicle's tanks were loose before he drove out of the plant around 6 a.m. yesterday,
City Engineer Frank Ventimiglia said.
"A trucking company was loaded up with sludge and was told that the 'dogs,' which are latches, were not operating
properly," Ventimiglia said. "He proceeded and dripped sludge from here to Rowley until police stopped him."
Gloucester Patrolman Vincent Adelsio noticed an unpleasant odor and "oily substance" on the road while driving on
Essex Avenue near Tony's Mobile Mart at 6:30 a.m. and followed it all the way to the Essex line. After tracing the
source of the liquid to the sewage plant and speaking with workers there, Gloucester police called state highway
officials, setting off a chain of calls to police departments in Essex, Ipswich and Rowley.
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NEW YORK
Sludge spill closes 209 in Kresgeville
PoconoNews.net - Newburgh,New York,USA
POLK TOWNSHIP – Route 209 was shut down for five hours, through the afternoon rush hour, Tuesday afternoon,
after messy spill of partially treated sewage. ...
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Sludge spill closes 209 in Kresgeville
POLK TOWNSHIP – Route 209 was shut down for five hours, through the afternoon rush hour, Tuesday afternoon,
after messy spill of partially treated sewage.
The mess happened when a tractor-trailer stopped suddenly to avoid hitting a car waiting to make a left turn. About
100 gallons of the sewage surged out of the open trailer.
Rt 209 was shut down between HTY Road and Burger Hollow Road. Cleanup crews were called in. The road
reopened about 7 p.m..
The waste came from outside Pennsylvania. The truck, carrying what was left of the sewage, eventually headed on to
Ohio.
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IDAHO
Caution: Feces Ahead
Rexburg Standard Journal - Rexburg,ID,USA
On Tuesday morning, a dump truck hauling a load of biosolids from Rexburg’s wastewater-treatment facility spilled its
contents on the residential road. ...
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http://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com:80/articles/2008/06/25/news/doc48626928d63b9167155932.txt
Caution: Feces Ahead
NICK LINDSEY/Standard Journal--A driver waits at the intersection of Fifth West and Main Street in Rexburg while
workers clean a biosolids spill Tuesday.
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Biosolids in road after near-accident
Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:01 AM MDT
NICK LINDSEY
nlindsey@uvsj.com
REXBURG – After driving through what appeared to be a large mud puddle on the corner of Fifth West and Main
Street, drivers were in for a surprise to find out that it wasn’t actually mud they had just splashed through.
On Tuesday morning, a dump truck hauling a load of biosolids from Rexburg’s wastewater-treatment facility spilled its
contents on the residential road.
“I had my window open in the morning, and the smell just got really bad,” said Anitra Hillman, who lives on Fifth South
at the site of the spill. “With the wind blowing right over here, it was gross.”
MASSACHUSETTS
http://www.southcoasttoday.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080503/NEWS/805030318
Spilled sludge pops up on the menu outside city restaurant
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Photos by PETER PEREIRA/The Standard Times Above, city crews clean up Cove Street in New Bedford’s South End
after hundreds of gallons of treated sludge from the city’s waste-water plant spilled from a container truck Friday.
Below, a pedestrian covers his nose as he walks past the scene.PETER PEREIRA
By Joao Ferreira
Standard-Times staff writers
May 03, 2008 6:00 AM
and Michael medeiros
NEW BEDFORD — It didn't smell fishy. It smelled much worse.
Just half an hour after Fernanda Dutra opened the doors of Horta Restaurant, a cozy fish-and-chips place on East
Rodney French Boulevard, it happened.
A truck carrying treated sludge from the city's wastewater treatment plant Friday morning spilled its contents at the
restaurant's front door when the driver stopped to check on a leaking valve.
"The guy was trying to fix it," Mrs. Dutra said. "Poor thing. The guy was in the back of the truck with his glove. It was all
over him."
She described the sludge as a smelling like sewage; a gooey, grayish-green mass that covered the street from side to
side.
"It looked like (yuk!)," waitress Kelly Pimentel added.
The JP Noonan driver told police he did not realize his truck was leaking until a motorist had gotten his attention near
Horta's, just before Route 18.
The driver immediately called for another truck to come to the scene so that the waste-water sludge could be off-
loaded, police said.
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PENNSYLVANIA
http://www.standardspeaker.com:80/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6965&Itemid=2
Sewage tanker truck flips on Interstate 80
Friday, 07 March 2008
By KELLY MONITZ
Staff Writer
A tanker truck hauling sewage crashed off of Interstate 80 westbound early Thursday morning, spilling most of its
6,000-gallon load of sewage in the median.
Traffic was down to a single lane westbound most of the day because of the crash at mile marker 267, which is
between the White Haven and Hazleton/Mountain Top exits.
Both lanes reopened around 3 p.m., according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
State police did not release any information regarding the driver, who suffered injuries in the crash, according to
reports.
The state Department of Environmental Protection was on scene Thursday due to the spilled sewage, said
spokesman Mark Carmon.
The tanker’s whole load, estimated between 5,000 and 6,000 gallons of sludge, spilled into an area where water
formed a pond in the median, Carmon said. The sewage may have spilled into Oley Creek, as well, he said.
Kisenwether Towing of Drums was working with state police and PennDOT to remove the truck and the contaminated
material, and heavily lime the area, Carmon said.
The cleanup “basically involves the removal of the grossly contaminated soil and the use of lime for stabilization,” he
said.
The department’s water quality division will also do follow-up work on the spill, due to the possible infiltration of Oley
Creek, Carmon said.
The tanker was hauling sewage from Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun, a Poconos resort that has an indoor water park.
The resort has its waste pumped and removed due to a malfunctioning sewage treatment plant. The tanker was
headed to the Greater Hazleton Joint Sewage Treatment Plant, which has been treating the sewage.
Representatives from the Luzerne County Emergency Management Agency were reportedly on the scene of the
crash, as well, but the agency coordinator was not immediately available for comment Thursday.
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