Sewage sludge dumping: who decides?
Because the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) continues to issue permits for land applied sewage sludge, despite the opposition of citizens and their local governments, it appears that the regulatory bureaucracy is disconnected from the democratic process.
Read more in the newspapers: The Times News and The REPUBLICAN & Herald
This seems like it could be an interesting meeting, Frank. Do we know if anyone from CCGG is planning on attending? If not, we may want to leave a post here for anyone who will report back to us about what went on.
I am currently planning on attending, but events may conspire to send me out of town on that day.
100 attend meeting on biosolids
TAMAQUA — A proposed ordinance that would make it difficult for individuals and impossible for corporations to apply biosolids, the industry term for partially treated sewage sludge, within the borough could be voted on within weeks.
“You must speak up today,” said a tearful Antoinette Pennock who stood with her husband, Russell, as she recounted the death of the Berks County couple’s 17-year-old son, Daniel, from staphylococcal pneumonia in 1995.
Read more: The REPUBLICAN & Herald
Has the borough determined that the material that is proposed for spreading has tested positive for the deleterious material? The problem with letting the people speak in this case is they rarely try to get truly informed, They need to base their opposition on real danger, not the perceived dnager so often latched onto by the uninformed.