Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Biosolids Use Regulations See Virginia Pollution Abatement (VPA) Permit Regulation at 9 VAC 25 - 32 [12 VAC 5 ‑ 585]
Action Enforcement and Site Management
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 12/15/2006
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12/14/06  12:00 am
Commenter: Cheryl Blanks

Will greed outweigh health concerns?
 

The Cornell Waste Management Institute reports that hundreds of sludge-exposed rural people have suffered serious respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses. Peer reviewed research published in the scientific literature has linked illnesses and deaths to land application. Drinking water sources in New Hampshire, Maine, and other states have been polluted.  Virginia, not the sludge hauler paid for a massive fish kill in a Loudoun County pond due to sludge runoff. EPA, and industry trade groups, such as NEBRA, are ignoring and covering up these reported and documented incidents. Enough is enough.  Why should greed and profits outweigh the health concerns of those rural citizens who are FORCED to live near these dumping grounds.

 

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