by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 11, 2016 | Environmental Justice, For Landowners
Published 3:03 pm Thursday, July 7, 2016 Farmville Herald by Jordan Miles A Buckingham County landowner says Dominion violated its own agreed-to survey process in work on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline while the firm contents it followed the policy. Quinn...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 11, 2016 | Events
Prizes for Fundraising Raffle Drawing September 14, 2016 at FoB monthly meeting at Union Hill Baptist Church 1496 Union Hill Road Buckingham 23921 The tickets are now available: $5 per ticket, 3 for $10. More prizes pending! This list will be updated as more donors...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
A 27 page report from Riverkeepers of North Carolina on the downstream contamination by the concentrated toxic chemicals in biosolids. Read the report. Haw River Assembly: Defending the river since 1982 Catawba Riverkeeper Mission Statement: We educate and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
Synagro is the private company that distributes the sludge for the wastewater treatment plants which are owned by the state. In Virginia There was a lawsuit involving Synagro’s spreading 1 million gallons of hog waste material from Smithfield’s lagoons. The lawsuit...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) allows treated sewage sludges, aka biosolids, to be land-applied to farms, forests, parks, school playgrounds, home gardens and other private and public lands. According to a recent EPA survey, biosolids contain a wide range of...
