I knew the Chinese did this and I thought it was GROSS, but I had no idea that we did it too!!!!!!! I'm expanding my garden, I so am......

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N.Y. Human Waste Raises Stink in Alabama


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GOODSPRINGS, Ala.
Last Updated:October 03. 2007 8:23PM
Published: October 03. 2007 8:23PM
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DEL.ICIO.US DE.LIRIO.US FARK FURL REDDIT TECHNORATI YAHOO MY WEB Human waste from New York is creating a stink in rural north Alabama. 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. It's a great deal for farmers, who get the fertilizer for free, but some in northwest Limestone County say they can't stomach the stench.



"When the wind is right, we can't even breathe," said Lori Muse of Goodsprings. "People out here are really upset about it. It smells 10 times worst than a pig barn."



Bill Daws, a county commissioner, called the odor "the worst smell that I've ever smelled."



"But we've checked everything out and it all appears to be legit," he told The News Courier of Athens, which first reported the flap.



Synagro Technologies Inc. of Houston, Texas, has a contract to dispose of human wastes from New York. The company treats sludge from wastewater plants in New York and ships it to Alabama by rail car by the ton.



The sludge is treated again at a plant in Leighton before it is spread on fields for farmers who sign up for the program, said Rodney Jackson, who investigated the arragement for the Limestone County Commission after complaints started coming in Friday.



People don't like the idea of New York poop being shipped to Alabama for disposal, he said, and they were worried about the possiblity that the fertilizer contained e-coli bacteria.



"According to the (Enrivonmental Protection Agency) it is not a health hazard, it is just a nuisance because of the smell," he said.



And what a smell it is, according to some. "I've described it as chicken litter and a little more," said Jackson, an enforcement officer with the county revenue department.



Synagro spokeswoman Lorrie Loder said as many as 40 farmers in the area have signed up to receive the shipments and another 15 are on a waiting list.



"It is a safe product and it does produce an odor like most good fertilizers do," said Loder.



Farmer Gary Peek said the free fertilizer is saving him a lot of money and enriching pasture land.



"I want to be a good neighbor," he said. "I'm not looking to harm anyone. I'm just trying to make a living."



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Information from: Athens News-Courier, http://www.enewscourier.com">- Homepage

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This sounds disgusting.

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Yep, two of my neighbors have people poop spread out over their yards. It's a topsoil and fertilizer blend. The neighborhood stinks to high heaven. When dh ordered our topsoil he said no to the human waste blend. It makes me want to puke but the smell is going away. I can't imagine who would pay for that stuff--heck we can get that stuff for free Dh said it's from the 'crap' (pun intended) that's left over at the wastewater treatment center. We live in VA so it's not just in AL.

HUMMm odd... there is a plave called EKO just out side the city limits where Dh grew up. IT doesn't smell at all. The dump is right there also and that smells way worse. Also friends of ours get ferterlizer from there and it is not bad at all. Maybe they just mix it diffrently.

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EWWWWW! And I thought it was bad when the paper mill was stinking up the town!

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LOL, i just pray there is never a day when i am out on my morning walk and i see old men squating in the rows of their gardens and reading a newspaper or magazine! Wonder if my dh will volunteer to crap in my flower garden?

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That is just nasty. Isn't there some kind of "town law" type of thing about nasty smelling yards or something? But then I guess, who would need to be called? In my town there was a person "rotting banannas" in their back yard and all of his neighbors complained and he had to get them removed because of the smell...

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This more common than you think.. It isn't spread on edible foods fields. It's spread on feild corn and other non human ediable fields. Our local "honey wagon" owner spreads his on fields. It is then knifed into the soil, thus eliminating the smell.

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Yeah, it is called 'manure'.

Our subdivision is across the street from a cow dairy. The farmer used the cow manure on his corn field which he grows to feed the cows. When he is spreading the manure (which is aged) it smells. Duh! Some of the newer residents, especially those in the new McMansion subdivision, have been known to complain. What did they think was going to happen when they moved in next to a 'lovely open field'. It's a working farm and dairy, d@mn it. If they want to enjoy the bubolic beauty of the rustic barn, the black and white spotted cows, and the stacks of hay, then you also get to put up with the tractor going 5-mph up and down the road, the flies, the wild critters that live in the barn (fox, mice, raccoons, etc), and the smell.

Human manure - which IS treated - smells no worse than chicken or cow manure. What would we like to see happen to all that waste material from the water treatment plants. Would it be better to bury the stuff in a landfill? Why not put it to the use for which it was intended by Mother Nature? - Let all that nitrogen rich manure grow necessary crops.

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Where did you think it went?

Way to expensive to dump in the sewage plant

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