Emergent - Sewage Sludge - Brochure

Spreading Sewage Sludge on your land will poison your soil, kill your livestock, and get you sued; the class action suits are already gathering momentum. This document will help you understand the very troubling issues surrounding the campaign to sell sewage solids as benign fertilizer. The document addresses the issue of spreading sewage sludge on land that is either used for directly growing food or is used on range land where livestock or wild animals consume it. This practice of spreading sewage on farmland predates the modern era; however, our city sewage sludge is not your grandfather’s manure. Urban sewage now includes chemicals, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, hormones, medical waste and pathogens that fundamentally change the implications of this practice.