She is probably correct that it is ending up in a landfill. I have
three friends locally who own boarding stables. Two of them have piled
their manure for years creating *mountains* of already composted manure (I
have cleaned one out and have about finished off the other being able to
place a 3' by 1/2 acre layer of 5-10 year-old manure on my garden area).
The third pays a waste mis-management company USD250/month to haul off a
50cu yard dumpster each month of fresh manure and sweepings. When I
contacted the hauler, they said it went to the landfill; I checked and found
out that was true. Sad, but I can't use that volume of fresh (my acre is in
the city near commercial and historic districts). Even though our city
'composts' yard waste, they have no interest in adding this to their stream
(dumb!!).
The problem with use of municipal sewage sludge is the waste
products from manufacturing and heavy metals. No matter where you put it,
it will end up in the groundwater. The only excusable use I have ever come
up with would be application in national forests or tree farms (away from
wellfields and aquafers). Places where there has been clear cutting of
trees or major fires could use this as a growth medium to reforest an area.
Walker Bennett
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cass Peterson [mailto:cpete@nb.net]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 10:25 AM
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about manure and sewage sludge
Kim Stoner wrote that a friend is
>distressed to learn that her daughter pays someone to remove and
"dispose" of her horse manure. She called me to see if I knew of any
organizations in California her daughter could contact in order to arrange
for appropriate use of the horse manure, preferably in organic agriculture.
Are you sure the person being paid isn't already "disposing" of the manure
by hauling it off to be composted or otherwise used as a soil
amendment/fertilizer? Seems highly unlikely to me that a manure hauler is
trucking the stuff off to a landfill.
As for Question 2 (the use of sewage sludge in landscaping), I personally
see no reason sewage sludge could not be appropriately used for some
landscaping purposes, like highway median plantings, shopping center
landscaping or golf course fairways.
Cass Peterson
cpete@nb.net
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