Fwd: FW: SLUDGE References

Fri Jan 14 08:41:12 PST 2000

>Hi Everyone I thought this might be good to pass along for refences listed
here
							wes
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>I am periodically asked for sources of information on sludge. Helane 
>Shields of New Hampshire has worked tirelessly to raise public 
>awareness on this issue. I am forwarding a long list of resources she 
>compiled for someone, many of which I have reviewed and recommend as 
>well. At the very bottom, is the message that prompted her response - a 
>cry for help from someone feeling powerless and physically ill over 
>land applications of sludge in their area. Don't let that be you or 
>someone you know in SLO. Arm yourself with the facts now and take 
>action.  
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Holly Sletteland  
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: hshields [mailto:hshields at worldpath.net] 
>Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:32 AM
>To: tielz
>Cc: hshields; beth.sokul
>Subject: VIRGINIA - ANOTHER SLUDGE VICTIMS CALLS FOR HELP
>
>
>Dear Lori, my name is Helane Shields.  I live in Alton, NH.   I
>have been working to educate people on the dangers of landspreading
>sewage sludge for 3 years.   I am networking with some wonderful people
>all over the country.    We are also aware of SLUDGE VICTIMS all over
>the country!
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>
>PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR MAILING ADDRESS so I can send you some information.
>
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>
>ALSO, Science Committee of US House of Representatives,, Wash. DC will
>soon be holding hearings on the issue of landspread sewage sludge, the
>bad  science backing up EPA's "503 sludge rules", and the harm being
>done to people, animals, land and water by this pernicious policy.    I
>am sending a copy of this email to Attorney Beth Sokul, Counsel for the
>House Science Committee, who is collecting information for the
>Committee.    Please feel free to contact her and tell her your
>experiences with sludge.
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>
>Here is a list of on-line resources, with many valuable links.
>
>http://www.riles.org/paper7.htm Toxic Avengers: EPA is pushing
>hazardous sludge as a fertilizer and the locals are fighting back, In
>These Times, by Laura Orlando, February 1999.
>
>http://www.life.ca/nl/58/sludge.html The Real Dirt on Sewage Sludge,
>by Wendy Priesnitz, Natural Life, November 1997.
>
>http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=2 Rachel's Weekly, A new
>US Waste Policy Emerges, numbers 560 and 561; and Excrement Happens,
>numbers 644 and 645, by Peter Montague. Keyword: Sewage Sludge.
>
>  http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r614.html  Drugs in the Water,
>Rachel's Weekly #614. "Sewage sludge provides a major pathway by
>which drugs enter the environment.  Until the drug problem is
>understood and controlled, it provides a solid scientific rationale
>for labelling sewage sludge a dangerous soil amendment, the use of
>which should be forbidden."
>
>http://www.cqs.com/toxsludg.htm The Sludge Hits the Fan, Chapter 8
>from Toxic Sludge Is Good For You,  John Stauber and Sheldon
>Rampton<BR>Common Courage Press,1995.
>
>PR Watch. http://www.prwatch.org/Q3-95/sludge.html Let Them Eat
>Sludge, by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
>
>http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/wmi/PDFS/LandApp.pdf A Case for Caution:
>Recommendations for the Land Application of Sewage Sludge</A><BR> A
>Cornell University Report, updated February 1999.
>
>Environmental Working Group,
>http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/Reports/SludgeMemo/sludge.html Dumping
>Sewage Sludge On Organic Farms? Why USDA Should Just Say No, August
>1998.
>
>CNN's Financial News Network Three-part story on sewage sludge; June
>25 - 27, 1997:
>Part One, More Than a Bad Smell
>http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/busunu/9706/25/hazard_one_pkg
>
>Part Two, Denver Sludge is Stinky Biz Part
>http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/busunu/9706/26/hazard_two_pkg/
>
>Three, Selling Sludge is a Sticky Operation
>http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/busunu/9706/27/hazard_three_pkg/#TOP
>
>http://www.whistleblowers.org/statements.htm#state4 Joanne Marshall's
>statement to the EPA regarding the death of her son from sludge
>poisoning.
>
>http://www.whistleblowers.org/statements.htm#state2 Why EPA
>regulations have everything to do with elections and nothing to do
>with protecting public health and the environment,statement by David
>L. Lewis, Ph.D, US EPA employee.
>
>C U R E (Citizens United for Responsible Environmentalism, Inc.) is a
>national, non-profit, education and research organization based in
>California that works on sludge and composting issues. The
>http://www.hookele.com/cure/sludge.html Hawaii Chapter of CURE has a
>web page with many useful sludge links and information about their
>effots to stop the toxic sludging of Maui.
>
>Sewage Sludge homepage of the
>http://www.envirolink.org/issues/sludge/ Pennsylvania Environmental
>Network.
>
>http://www.cqs.com/esludge.htm CQS's Health Alert: The Sludge Story
>
>New Hampshire Greens'
>http://home.earthlink.net/~rhenderson/grsludge.html position on
>sludge.
>
>Environmental Interest Organization's
>http://www.eieio.org/sludge/sludgehome.htm
>  Sludge Dumping in Virginia.
>
>http://www.safesoil.com/ A Swedish Sludge Web Site, in English and
>Swedish.
>
>Toxic Tort Attorney Resources, http://www.toxlaw.com/ TOXBOARD: The
>Toxic Tort Bulletin Board.
>
>http://www.purefood.org/Toxic/toxicpoison.cfm The EPA and the new
>plagues, by James W. Bynum, March 31, 1999
>
>  http://www.life.ca/nl/69/sludge.html  Sludge on Your Supper Table,
>Natural Life, August 23, 1999.
>
>http://www.safesoil.com/case.htm  Sludge on Farmland: Case Studies,
>Canaan, New Hampshire.
>
>HAWAII - NICHOLAS NATALE - ANOTHER SLUDGE VICTIM?
>http://www.hookele.com/mt/forum/messages/281.html
>
>http://members.aol.com/neurosite/sewage.htm Sewage Sludge and
>Neurotoxicity, by Raymond Singer, PhD, P.A.
>
>Redefining Sludge: Activists search for answers about sludge and its
>impact on our food supply. The Workbook. A publication of the
>Southwest Research and Information Center.   Summer 1998. P.O. Box
>4524, 105 Stanford SE, Alburquerque, NM 87106. Tel 505 346-1455.
>Email: THEWORKBOOK at igc.org.</A><P>
>
>ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems editorials on sludge:
>
>Laundering Toxic Waste http://www.riles.org/musings1.htm ;
>Organic Food and Sewage Sludge http://www.riles.org/musings2.htm ;
>Can You Clean-Up Sludge? A Correspondence
>http://www.riles.org/musings5.htm ;
>Radioactive Sludge in Denver http://www.riles.org/musings9.htm ;
>Something Stinks in the EPA  http://www.riles.org/musings23.htm
>
>Links to information about factory farms and laundering of industrial
>waste in commercial fertilizers:
>
>Fear in the Fields: How Hazardous Wastes Become Fertilizer, Duff
>Wilson, Seattle Times.
>http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/altfert_070397.html
>
>The Why Files: Science Behind the News,
>http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/063recycle/toxic.html  Farm Fields:
>Ideal  Resting Place for Toxic Waste? A summary of Duff Wilson's
>expose of recycling of industrial waste in commercial fertilizers.
>
>http://www.cfra.org Center for Rural Affairs, Corporate Farming.
>
>http://www.nandotimes.com/sproject/hogs/ Boss Hog: North Carolina's
>Pork Revolution. Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for public service
>journalism.
>
>The ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems' sludge links.
>http://www.riles.org/links.htm#Sludge
>
>
>IMPORTANT:    PLEASE GET YOUR FREE COPY OF THIS REPORT.    IT HELPS TO
>EXPLAIN THE SYMPTOMS SUFFERED BY SO MANY SLUDGE VICTIMS, BECAUSE OF
>AIRBORN PATHOGENS AND ENDOTOXINS:
>
>
>HETA 98-0118-2748     BIOSOLIDS LAND APPLICATION PROCESS, LESOURDSVILLE,
>
>OHIO
>
>NANCY CLARK BURTON, M.P.H., M.S, C.I.H. and DOUGLAS TROUT, M.D., M.H.S.
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>"To expedite your request, INCLUDE A SELF-ADDRESSED MAILING LABEL ALONG
>WITH YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST TO:
>
>NIOSH PUBLICATIONS OFFICE
>4676 COLUMBIA PARKWAY
>CINNCINNATI, OHIO   45226
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>Subject:
>            Re: Fwd: Ellen Harrison: Please help us
>       Date:
>            Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:37:26 -0800
>      From:
>            Ellen Harrison <ezh1 at cornell.edu>
>        To:
>            chartmannsa at taconic.net, hshields at worldpath.net
> References:
>            1
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>I assume Lori has been in touch with you two
>Ellen
>
>>>From: "Lori Handshy" <tielz at erols.com>
>>>To: <cwmi at cornell.edu>
>>>Subject: Ellen Harrison:  Please help us
>>>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:59:23 -0500
>>>X-Priority: 1
>>>
>>>I contacted you last summer about the sludging going on in this area.
>I got
>>>nowhere that time.  I DID get sick, though, unable to eat, massive
>headaches
>>>that would not go away no matter what I took and woke up nauseous
>nightly.
>>>I went to the doctor because I got scared.
>>>I am sorry for the short notice, but we were not notified of our
>neighbor
>>>across the street applying for a permit until last week....I need some
>MAJOR
>>>help down here in VA.  We need to get in a few people to come with us
>to the
>>>board of supervisors meeting on Feb 1st.  Of course, we will provide
>housing
>>>and meals between me and my neighbors.  We are all upset and went to
>the
>>>zoning board tonight.  Of course, those people passed every issue
>there and
>>>did not understand the real issue beyond smell.  My elderly neighbors
>will
>>>be directly impacted along with us, if not more so.  They are
>surrounded on
>>>2 sides by this land (which used to be their family farm).  The land
>is
>>>mushy and they are actually afraid for their lives.  Please, please
>let us
>>>know who may be able to come down and help us out.  I know they will
>have
>>>their guns loaded at the meeting.  Desiree, the health dept. person
>from
>>>this town LIED and told the board that there is 20 years research that
>
>>>proves this stuff safe and that the heavy metals issues, toxins and
>>>viruses/bacteria issue IS RESOLVED.  PLEASE, we are desperate to
>educate and
>>>stop this from being spread in our front yard.  I know that they will
>rebutt
>>>your paper.  I need someone, hopefully you, that can back us up.  You
>can
>>>reach me at 540-399-9803 or here on email.  Lori Handshy from
>Culpeper, VA
>>
>>.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
>>Lauri Wellin
>>Cornell Waste Management Institute
>>101b Rice Hall, Cornell University
>>Ithaca, NY 14853-5601
>>ph: 607/255-1187 / fx: 607/255-8207
>>cwmi at cornell.edu / http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/wmi/
>
>Ellen Z. Harrison, Director
>Cornell Waste Management Institute
>100 Rice Hall
>Ithaca, NY 14853
>607 255-8576
>FAX 607 255-8207
>http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/wmi
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