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Do you think residents of Manhattan would accept sewage from Alabama?
This would be funny if it wasn't so sad ,,,,,, and gross.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...oo-alabama-town-deals-with-a-smelly-situation
Partial snip:
"They call it sludge," AL.com reporter Dennis Pillion told NPR's Here & Now. "They call it biosolids."
Or, in other words, poop.
It's been there since February. At one point as many as 250 containers of it — some 10 million pounds — were sitting, parked off the tracks, in Parrish, pop. 982.
"It's so frustrating," Mayor Heather Hall told 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."
Even more frustrating for the town: the waste isn't theirs. It's all from New York and New Jersey, who, according to Pillion, regularly ship human waste as far as Alabama and Colorado.
Several wastewater treatment plants struck a deal to send their waste to a landfill in Adamsville ...
This would be funny if it wasn't so sad ,,,,,, and gross.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...oo-alabama-town-deals-with-a-smelly-situation
Partial snip:
"They call it sludge," AL.com reporter Dennis Pillion told NPR's Here & Now. "They call it biosolids."
Or, in other words, poop.
It's been there since February. At one point as many as 250 containers of it — some 10 million pounds — were sitting, parked off the tracks, in Parrish, pop. 982.
"It's so frustrating," Mayor Heather Hall told 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."
Even more frustrating for the town: the waste isn't theirs. It's all from New York and New Jersey, who, according to Pillion, regularly ship human waste as far as Alabama and Colorado.
Several wastewater treatment plants struck a deal to send their waste to a landfill in Adamsville ...
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