Riverside Bans Sewage Sludge as Farm Fertilizer. By SEEMA MEHTA . June 27, 2001 12 AM PT . ... Across the nation, more than 5 million dry tons of biosolids were produced in 2000, ...

More than 2 million dry tons were used on 4.6 million acres of farmland in 2018, ... The E.P.A. hasn’t changed its policy of promoting sludge fertilizer, which has benefits along with the risks.

But Volusia has among the highest volume of marketed and distributed class AA sludge “fertilizer” along the lagoon, producing 29,777 dry tons in 2013. By comparison, Brevard had 244.5 dry tons.

The fertilizer industry says more than 2 million dry tons of sewage sludge were used on 4.6 million acres of farmland in 2018. ... Maine banned the use of sludge fertilizer in 2022.

Biosolids aren't tested for forever chemicals before being used as fertilizer in Florida. Testing requirements would help ...

The drier sludge also makes excellent fertilizer, and the borough would literally be able to give it away, Councilman and head of the sewer committee Brian Goshow said at a previous meeting.

She stresses that the sludge that was applied to her neighbors’ fields was not the dry, chicken litter from coops commonly used as fertilizer, but the remnants from a poultry processing plant ...

Hamilton is poised to approve a plan to build a $106-million plant to turn the city’s sewage sludge into dry fertilizer. Councillors voted 10-4 to pursue a 30-year, public-private partnership ...

Four weeks later, on Dec. 29, Johnson County environmental crimes investigator Dana Ames received a report from a man in Grandview. Piles of smoking biosolids fertilizer on his neighbor’s land ...

In a deal city officials say will solve Baltimore’s sludge problems for years, the Board of Estimates has agreed to pay two firms about $320 million to convert wet, smelly sewage sludge into ...

Indore Municipal Corporation on Tuesday received a Cobalt-60 unit to help convert dry sludge at Kabitkhedi sewage treatment plant into bio fertilizer. The process will kill toxic elements and ...

Big crowd expected for sludge-to-fertilizer meeting. Updated: Oct. 21, 2017, ... 2017, to the Plainfield Township Planning Commission for a sewage sludge treatment plant. ...