[CPEO-MEF] COLORADO DAILY "HERE COMES THE SLUDGE"

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Colorado Daily

Here comes the sludge
But officials say Lowry Landfill clean-up plan poses no danger
 
By BRIAN HANSEN
Colorado Daily Staff Writer
 
February 18, 2000
 
The state of Washington this week blocked a company from selling 
"fertilizer" containing hazardous wastes derived from nuclear fuel 
production, but officials here stand ready to implement a plan that 
critics say effectively authorizes the spreading of plutonium-laced 
sewage sludge on farm fields in eastern Colorado.
 
The plan, which could be launched within the next six weeks, authorizes 
the city of Denver to treat contaminated groundwater from the Lowry 
Landfill Superfund Site at its York Street municipal sewage treatment 
plant.
 
According to the plan, the Lowry groundwater will be incorporated into 
the plant's sewage sludge, which has for years been sold as a commercial 
composting and fertilizer product known as "Metrogro." Additionally, the 
processed sewage sludge -- which industry groups prefer to call 
"biosolids" -- will be routinely applied to about 52,000 acres of 
taxpayer-owned farm lands near Dear Trail, Colo.
 
Adrienne Anderson
Environmental Studies Program
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0339
Phone:  (303) 492-2952 (message)
Fax:       (303) 329-0217
 

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