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.
I thought using human waste for fertilizer was a no no.
They did the same thing right outside of Lansing, Mi back in the 70s and we nicknamed it the same.
I Like the way you think...
I’m not sure high-speed rail would help the situation.
Wasteful.
Oh, my. I'm imagining the aftermath...splattered toxic human waste for hundreds of feet in every direction. It'd probably make the area practically uninhabitable for quite a while.
On the other hand, it'd give new meaning to the word "s***storm".
Donate it to the RNC in honour of the spending bill.
They should send it to San Francisco
The town of Eugene, Oregon powers itself from the methane piped from its landfill...
Brilliant! No concrete required and Pelosi left “poop adobe” off the list of forbidden materials...
Simple-
Parrish needs to create a S**t Transient Tax”. Then the train cars will move on quickly...:^)
Obama-Era Clean-Air Rule on Methane Emissions Blocked Again
U.S. News & World Report | April 5, 2018 | BY MATTHEW DALY
Posted on 04/05/2018 12:18:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3645193/posts
Hey, I have a new idea on how to build the wall! :-)
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Excellent. Could also be used to pump into every tunnel found.
Falling into the cities big fan.
remember the garbage barges in the 80’s
Lol
They’re getting methane from the hills here, too.
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