Prior to the 1970s, we used to dump sewage directly into the ocean; now we make fertilizer out of our own human waste and spread it on agricultural lands throughout our state. When it rains, nutrients and metals run right back into our estuaries….is this the answer, or another disaster? What are our options?
If you live close by, please attend this Thursday’s Rivers Coalition meeting to learn more. It was Mr. Gary Roderick who inspired me in 2008, when I was a new commissioner for the Town of Sewall’s Point, to take a deeper look at the causes of environmental destruction of our rivers. He is a knowledgeable and versed having worked both in government and as an environmental consultant.
Please join us!
Below, I am including two former blog posts on the subject: 1. Drowning in Our Own Human-Excrement-Fertilizer; and 2. Spreading Refined Human Waste on the Lands, “Biosolids,” St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon.
Drowning in Our Own Human-Excrement-Fertilizer, SLR/IRL:
https://jacquithurlowlippisch.com/tag/department-of-environmental-protection/
Spreading Human Waste on the Lands, “Biosolids,” St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon:
https://jacquithurlowlippisch.com/tag/biosolid-distribution-south-florida/
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Informational links and summary of where name biosolids came from:
“As public concern arose about disposal in the United States of increasing volumes of solids being removed from sewage during sewage treatment mandated by the Clean Water Act, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) sought a new name to distinguish the “clean,” agriculturally viable product generated by modern wastewater treatment from earlier forms of sewage sludge widely remembered for causing offensive or dangerous conditions. Of three-hundred suggestions, biosolids was attributed to Dr. Bruce Logan of the University of Arizona, and recognized by WEF in 1991.” The story of “biosolids” WIKI
UF IFAS Biosolids:http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_series_florida_biosolids
Biosolids and Heavy Metals in Soil:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162003000400029
EPA: https://www.epa.gov/ocean-dumping/learn-about-ocean-dumping#Before
Hi I plan to be there. Jim
Great!
I have read dementia and alshimers is rampant here in Florida. Because aluminium sulfate is used in sewage treatment plants it has to be in the fertilizer. There is NO question that aluminium sulfate causes alshimers . It is differant from other aluminium products in that it dissolves in water. That means plants can suck it up.I hope someone will ask about this issue