sewer sludge
sewerage sludge

The agricultural use of sewer sludge strikes a delicate balance.

You know the dark ales out of that synthesizer always taste like sewer sludge.

Sewer sludge, the bane of municipal engineers, has been building into a monumental problem over the years.

It looked like sewer sludge. '

From roughly 400 liters of sewer sludge, you get one gallon of biodiesel.

No more backed-up sewer sludge.

(Paul, like many men, has hit bottom because he has been left by the women he's treated like sewer sludge.)

Little separates the candidates on two major issues: closing the Shoreham nuclear power plant and a ban on ocean dumping of sewer sludge.

Since Congress banned ocean dumping starting in 1992, using processed sewer sludge as fertilizer has become the most popular way for municipalities to deal with waste.

The new standards ban the use of irradiation, biotechnology and the use of sewer sludge as fertilizer in anything labeled organic food.

The discharged mixture of rainwater, raw municipal sewage and scoured sewer sludge pollutes receiving waters.

The utility had failed to live up to its promises to invest in reducing water leakage, and had run into trouble in mishandling sewer sludge.

In fact, many farmers say processed sewer sludge is a cheap and effective fertilizer, and organic farmers prefer biosolids over chemical fertilizers.

A Texas company has opened a plant that treats sewer sludge from New York and turns it into fertilizer that is spread on Alabama farmland.

Any solution involving land disposal of sewer sludge - the material left over from normal sewage treatment -would involve expensive additional treatment to remove the toxic wastes.

Sixty percent of the 5.6 million tons of sewer sludge disposed of in the country is processed, relabeled "biosolids" and applied to land, according to industry figures.

CSOs represent a mixture of stormwater, raw municipal sewage and scoured sewer sludge, and their composition is comparable to that of untreated sewage.

Mr. Hochbrueckner voted in favor of a bill, approved by the House and the Senate this week, to ban the dumping of sewer sludge into the ocean, beginning in 1992.

Last year's contaminated-milk scandal reinforced fears about China's food supply, a legitimate concern in a country where most farms rely on toxic sewer sludge to fertilize fields, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.

Mr. Parris spends much of his time fending off efforts by the District of Columbia to ship its excess sewer sludge, garbage and convicted felons to various dumps and prisons in his district.

After what Mr. O'Rourke said was an extensive site survey and environmental-impact review, county officials have decided to use an existing building at the Yonkers Waste Water Treatment Plant to house an operation to remove water from Yonkers's sewer sludge.

The McElmurrays and the Boyce family, which owns another farm in the area, Boyceland Dairy, blame the fertilizer they used on their hayfields - processed sewer sludge from the city of Augusta, which they say was tainted by industrial waste from surrounding factories.

French, a 48-year-old associate professor at Mississippi State University (MSU), has convinced the school and the US Department of Energy to build him a Sustainable Energy Research Center-a large building designed around French's novel ideas about converting sewer sludge into biodiesel.

The commercial features Mr. McMillan, the Republican-Conservative candidate for the Senate, walking along a beach, criticizing Mr. Moynihan for opposing, at the request of the Koch administration, a 1991 deadline on the dumping of sewer sludge in the ocean off New York and New Jersey.

In the early 1970s Herbert R. Appell and coworkers worked with hydrous pyrolysis methods, as exemplified by U. S. patent 3,733,255 (issued in 1973), which discusses the production of oil from sewer sludge and municipal refuse by heating the material in water, under pressure, and in the presence of carbon monoxide.

Our sewerage sludge incineration plant could cost us $30 million.

It also has potential applications as a biofuel, cleaning up sewerage sludge without the need for pumps to provide air, and providing methane in return.

The police followed and saw the records being dumped in the municipal landfill and prepared for a covering of sewerage sludge.

Green life mulch is fabulous and contains composted sewerage sludge, sawdust and organic matter and more.

The state Agricultural Development Committee wants to lift a ban on using sewerage sludge as fertilizer on farms that are part of the farmland preservation program.

A variety of waste including sewerage sludge, prunings and fish waste is mixed with sawdust (to a 25:1 carbon/nitrogen balance) with with about 20% red mud (the bauxite refining residue).

A state regulation simply saying that no public solid-waste incineration facility will be allowed unless it includes the disposition of the sewerage sludge in the area could, in a relatively short time, take all sludge out of the ocean.

Lastly in this area, biosolids compost (i.e. compost made from sewerage sludge) contains a large variety of industrial chemicals, heavy metals and pharmaceutical drugs, many of which might find their way into food grown using this product.

'Piecemeal Approach Is Doomed' In addition, New York and New Jersey have agreed on programs to track medical waste and prevent it from washing up on beaches and have agreed on Federal legislation to end the ocean dumping of sewerage sludge by 1992.