Posted on 04/05/2018 12:18:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
'God help us if it gets hot and this material is still out here'
(Newser) – Springtime in one small Alabama town smells more like manure than magnolias this year—and it's going to get a lot worse as the weather gets warmer. Dozens of freight cars carrying some 10 million pounds of human waste, enough to form a malodorous train more than a mile long, have been stranded in a Parrish rail yard for two months awaiting transfer to a landfill site, and residents say they can't take the stench for much longer, NJ.com reports. They say the freight cars smell like rotting corpses. The sewage sludge waste, shipped south from treatment plants in New York and New Jersey, is destined for a private landfill in Adamsville that has been accepting "biosolids" for more than a year. But nearby West Jefferson sued in January to prevent the foul-smelling waste from being handled at a local rail yard where the containers had been moved to trucks that would get the waste to the landfill.
And so the cars were shifted to Parrish, which didn't have zoning laws to prevent the move, and now they sit. Residents say the foul odor pervades the town, which has a population of 982 in 2 square miles. "It greatly reduces the quality of life," Mayor Heather Hall tells CNN. "You can't sit out on your porch. Kids can't go outside and play, and God help us if it gets hot and this material is still out here." She says the landfill told her it would take about a week to get the waste shipped out—but that was months ago. She says she is worried about the health of residents, though officials have told her that since the waste is "Grade A biowaste," not raw sewage, there should be no problems.
If this train track goes by any politicians houses, I can think of something to do with it.
Might be high time for an “accidental” fire to break out.
South gets crapped on by the Northeast all the time, we may as well get paid for it.
Route the trainload of feces to Mueller. He likes anal probes.
Biosolids is a growth industry.
If one of those carriers develops a leak the stench will be bad.
Send it back to NY.
Ohhh... growth.
What a load of crap!
Isn't that reassuring?
I lived in Asia for 14 years (mostly the leading first world country there) in cities far more desnsely populated than New York and New Jersey and never heard of this problem until coming home. We are evidently no longer a first world country.
Trainload of NYC poop in Alabama is creating stink for residents
Now THAT is constipation.
It is like the Pixies song Monkey Gone to Heaven has come to life!
I bet it’s gone anaerobic and is cooking in those containers. They should probably check for methane.
Biosolids very in grades so that the top grade is the most inert and safe for flower gardens, etc, but not for human consumption. The next grade down can be applied to forage crop feed for animals. The difference is the drying process. Class A material is laid out in rows and is turned regularly (air farmed) so that the good bacteria and oxygen are constantly working to break it down.
This material is likely going to be used as the daily cover material at the land fill.
I would sure like to have the disposal contract for this program.
Do you really think the waste from those cities is left in the cities? I’m in a philly suburb along the delaware. There are 4 mini-mountains that were “grown” with garbage from NYC and Philly over the last 30+years.
Waste Management sure does a good job. The towns sued them because of the odor...$2 million settlement
http://levittownnow.com/2016/01/08/settlement-in-tullytown-landfill-class-action-suit-reached/
Where is our old FR buddy GREEN these days???
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