[bannie]

It doesn't come to us as refined as that! We get SLUDGE. The crops that they try to grow over it to further treat it are not really crops. They "grow" corn over it which comes up in occasional clumps no higher than a foot...where it will come up. THIS is NOT fertilizer. It is human waste in SLUDGE form. It stinks.

Further, the nearby Buena Vista Lake has had to be closed for swimming a number of times because of "mysterious" contamination. (Ironically, LA has so flooded that lake with vacationers, there's no room there for locals.)

[Fierce Allegiance]

Is the sludge placed on private property without the owners consent? Are they in violation of state or federal regulations in doing so?

I understand this is personal, but how is this different than the rest of the NIMBY cases I read about thta have driven up both the cost of disposal and likelyhood of less-than-legal disposal (more often in trash disposal)?