The Real Cost of Sewage Sludge

Toxic Sewage Sludge is green-washed as biosolid fertilizer and provided to landowners for FREE by Synagro. When something sounds too good to be true - it is. In Carbon County, landowners in East Penn, Franklin, and Towamensing use the toxic spread that poisons the land, creates a malodorous stench that drives neighbors indoors, and threatens pristine waterways like Lizard Creek and Sawmill Run that flow into our Lehigh River. Who ensures that the application of Sewage Sludge meets the regulations of Pennsylvania Code Title 25 Chapter 275 “Land Application of Sewage Sludge”? Synagro. Neither the PA Department of Environmental Protection nor the Carbon County Conservation District tracks or enforces the application of Sewage Sludge in Carbon County. To coin a phrase, the fox is guarding the hen house. There is hope - Pennsylvania House Bill 1116 (H.B. 1116) provides for the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct a study on PFAS chemicals in biosolids AND to test the concentrations of PFAS chemicals in biosolids used for land application on farmland. H.B. 1116 is currently with the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee. Please contact your elected State Representatives or the Chairs of the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee to voice your support. H.B. 1116 must pass!

Class B Biosolids (aka Sewage Sludge) are so toxic that 'no trepass' signs are posted to warn people - but deer and other wildlife can't read.