As a rural citizen and owner of a farm, I am concerned about the safety issues involved in applying sewer sludge to land. Monitoring is an impossibility since each load would have to be thoroughly tested by a certified third party to guarantee that no heavy metals, no carcinogens, no pathogens, no toxic wastes were present.

Common sense should prevail. Something as simple as dumping old medications down a toilet would have possible health and environmental consequences. One can only imagine what besides human waste has entered the sewer systems of any metropolis. Any short term gain on a ledger sheet must be outweighed by the possible consequences of poisoning our citizens, our environment, our future.