Sludge

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Sludge: - A semi-solid residue from any of a number of air or water treatment processes; can be a hazardous waste.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Sludge::

Sludge group takes action  -  05 Aug 2008
Northumberland News,..."I expected them to spread the sludge right up to my front door," said the farmer's neighbour Sandra Rosario. "It's just fantastic news that the farmer

Thick Guitar Sludge: Pontiak to Release Sun on Sun  -  05 Aug 2008
Spacelab,Billed as a "power trio" and "swaggering guitar rock," Pontiak make the kind of sounds that happen when you channel your guitar chord through thick,

Boone City Council to hear bids for 2008 Sludge System Improvement ...  -  05 Aug 2008
Boone News Republican,...on the proposed plans, specifications, form of contract and estimate of costs for phase one of the construction of the 2008 Sludge System Improvements.

Unattractive shore  -  05 Aug 2008
MiamiHerald.com,Texas, shore: the wind in my hair, collecting seashells covered in black sludge, my mother lovingly rubbing our feet with turpentine to remove the tar

WWF blasts oil-sand extraction  -  05 Aug 2008
Lloyd's List,Plans to squeeze oil out of tar-rich sludge in countries such as Canada will reap C$125bn ($122bn) by 2015 and “could

Cleaning sewage at the source  -  05 Aug 2008
Times of India,Here, scum rises to the top and sludge collects at the bottom A baffle exit allows the dirty water collected in the middle to be sent to the second

Sludge cleanup in vain  -  Aug 3, 2008
Marlborough Express,Behind every cloud is a silver lining ... and so it has been for a Blenheim businessman after last week's storm. Gerry Roodakker, who owns and operates

Waste not, want not : Can sewer sludge be a valuable resource for ...  -  Aug 3, 2008
Northwest Arkansas Times,The scum and solids that are removed during the treatment process are called sewage sludge or biosolids. These biosolids are nutrient-rich organic materials

North American Sludge Treatment Equipment Markets: Preparing for ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
MarketWatchTraditional treatment techniques dominate the sludge treatment equipment market because municipal end-users are against the use of new market technologies.

THE SYNAGRO SLUDGE DEAL Council could dump Synagro deal next week  -  Jul 16, 2008
Detroit Free Press,BY ZACHARY GORCHOW • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • July 16, 2008 The Detroit City Council could vote next Tuesday to rescind the Synagro sludge recycling

THE SYNAGRO SLUDGE DEAL Council postpones vote on sludge deal  -  Jul 22, 2008
Detroit Free Press,The Detroit City Council postponed a vote that had been expected today to rescind the Synagro Technologies sludge recycling contract that is now the subject

EU rule leaves blue flag beach coated in sludge  -  Jul 30, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,By John Bingham One of Britain's best beaches has been left coated in a thick black sludge from thousands of tonnes of rotting seaweed after council

Don't confuse 'sludge' and 'biosolids'  -  Aug 2, 2008
Allentown Morning Call,Synagro does not generate ''sludge'' or biosolids anywhere. We manage biosolids -- treated, environmentally approved materials only – that are generated in

Presumed dinosaur flesh may just be bacterial sludge  -  Jul 30, 2008
Scientific AmericanRemember when scientists announced three years ago that they had found the soft tissue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a 70-million-year-old fossil? Never mind.

State acts to clean up ash and sludge site  -  Aug 1, 2008
The News Journal,By JEFF MONTGOMERY • The News Journal • August 1, 2008 Delaware regulators ordered new controls and cleanup plans today for a troubled ash and sludge

Tullytown fights to keep radioactive waste out of landfill  -  Aug 4, 2008
The Trentonian,Thats why they're fighting a plan to bring radioactive sludge to the Tullytown Landfill. Ten stories high, the greening mound of buried rubbish casts a

Federal grand jury probes possible payoffs in Synagro sludge deal  -  Jul 17, 2008
Detroit Free Press,By ZACHARY GORCHOW • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • July 17, 2008 A federal grand jury is investigating the Synagro Technologies deal to reprocess sludge from

Municipal leaders call sludge meeting  -  Jul 31, 2008
FayObserver.com,Laurinburg councilmen and Maxton commissioners say they want to meet with airport officials to find out more about a series of illegal sludge dumps at the

Sludge City, space among topics at Camp Invention  -  Jul 31, 2008
Joplin Globe,In another room, children learned about water and air pollution in Sludge City, then created a new city using recyclable materials such as plastic bottles

Foreign Companies May Apply for Russian Nanotechnology Funding  -  Aug 4, 2008
Nanotechnology and Development News,...[More] Bacteria in Sewage Sludge Prevent Certain Nanoparticles Clumping Together -- AZoNano.com (7/29/2008) Researchers from the Institute for Chemical and

Truck trails smelly sludge from Gloucester to Rowley  -  Jul 31, 2008
The Daily News of Newburyport,..."A trucking company was loaded up with sludge and was told that the 'dogs,' which are latches, were not operating properly," Ventimiglia said.

Aquatech Awarded Pretreatment System Contract at Sandy Creek ...  -  Aug 4, 2008
RedOrbit,...three Multi Media Filters each at 750 gallons per minute, Lime Feeders, Chemical Feed Systems, Sludge Thickening and a Sludge Compaction System.

Saturday Night: Boris at the Great American Music Hall  -  Aug 4, 2008
SF Weekly Blogs,There aren’t many bands that can pull off stoner rock, sludge, drone, psychedelic, noise and ambient all in one show, but Boris is the exception to a lot of

How much radiation is too much?  -  Aug 3, 2008
phillyBurbs.com,By JO CIAVAGLIA The 750 tons of radioactive sludge that Waste Management agreed to accept at its local municipal landfills would expose the public to less

Firm denies producing paper sludge pellets  -  Jul 30, 2008
Hamilton Spectator,The Ontario Ministry of the Environment says an Oshawa company is turning paper-recycling sludge into pellets on a trial basis at the problem-plagued former

Turning sewage sludge into profits  -  Jul 30, 2008
Ottawa Business Journal,Bishop Aquatic, whose 'Geotube' container technology reduces the volume of sludge left over from wastewater treatment, has undergone more than three years

Stories of pain spurred probe into sludge  -  Jul 19, 2008
Toronto Star,They said their ill health was caused by sewage sludge spread on fields near their homes. All I knew then about sludge, or biosolids as it's also known,

Bacteria in Sewage Sludge Prevent Certain Nanoparticles Clumping ...  -  Jul 29, 2008
Nanotechnology and Development News,The researchers found that while the nanoparticles’ adherence to the sewage sludge enables the nanoparticles to be removed from the water,

Detroit sludge hauler eyeing Green Oak contract  -  Jul 30, 2008
Livingston Daily,By Christopher Behnan • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • July 30, 2008 Synagro Technologies Inc., the contractor whose $47 million sewage sludge contract with Detroit

Dioxin Risk In Sewage-sludge Used On Crops, Plant Tissue Grown On ...  -  Jul 16, 2008
Science Daily (press release)ScienceDaily (July 16, 2008) — Land application of biosolids (treated municipal sewage sludge) is a common practice because biosolids are a rich source of

Grassroots fight against sludge gaining momentum  -  Jul 28, 2008
Community Press,In response to anti-sludge activist Wendy Deavitt being banned from entering council chambers – again – and hearing Mayor Hector Macmillan announce that he

$995000 Sought For Sludge Cleanup At Southington Plant  -  Jul 18, 2008
Hartford Courant,By KEN BYRON | Courant Staff Writer SOUTHINGTON — - Cleaning up the remnants of contaminated sludge at the town's sewage treatment plant will cost nearly $1

Ray Parker was a true leader  -  Aug 4, 2008
Crain's Detroit Business,While the July 14 column by Mary Kramer indicated the sludge is getting deeper here, (“The "sludge' here is getting really deep�) keep in mind that someone

Sister sludge  -  Jul 30, 2008
Bay Area Reporter,...by Jim Piechota Materializing right on the heels of pointed suspicion that she's cheating on cheerless husband Guy Ritchie with New York Yankees slugger

Smell the sludge  -  Jul 29, 2008
Detroit Metro Times,That odor from this sludge deal has spread well beyond City Council. Others who have come under questioning or suspicion include former Synagro consultant

Folks cry foul over sludge run  -  Jul 17, 2008
London Free Press,But about 9000 tonnes of "sludge cakes," dried and compressed human stool, will need to make its way from the sewage plant to the landfill.

Kids tackle solar power, 'sludge' at Camp Invention  -  Jul 28, 2008
The Olympian,They rotated through stations, including a Mars theme, a recycled-art room and a "Sludge City" project, in which students learned about various pollutants

Sewer plant planners flushed with optimism  -  Aug 1, 2008
Newburyport Current,There, the DPW has managed to give a second life to probably the least likely thing in the municipal waste stream: sludge. And city workers have been doing

Sludge plans under council spotlight  -  Jul 28, 2008
Kent News,Controversial plans to build a sludge recycling plant in Sellindge will be discussed by council chiefs this week. Shepway council’s planning committee has

From cleaner harbour water to dirty farmland By FRED BLOIS  -  Jul 30, 2008
TheChronicleHerald.ca,The sewage sludge from these treatment facilities is now being spread on farmland across the province. Harbour sewage is treated through an advanced primary

Sludge-spreading cancellation pleases Trent Hills activists  -  Jul 25, 2008
Standard Freeholder,A Campbellford landowner’s decision not to spread sludge on his land has a group of Trent Hills residents elated this morning (July 25).

Johor fishermen hit by oil sludge  -  Jul 9, 2008
Malaysia Star,By FARIK ZOLKEPLI Last Saturday, the oil sludge could be seen in the waters of Sungai Rengit up to Pulau Lima. The fishermen said their nets and fishing

Women’s Meticulous Sludge  -  Jul 29, 2008
Exclaim!,By Alex Molotkow Women are a fun interview. The words “semen� and “douchebag� have already worked their way into our conversation (in various contexts),

Nanoparticles In Sewage Could Escape Into Bodies Of Water  -  Jul 27, 2008
Science Daily (press release)ScienceDaily (July 28, 2008) — In a conventional sewage works, nanoparticles should really be bound in the sludge and should not represent a major problem

Beaches in raw sewage dump horror  -  Aug 4, 2008
Mirror.co.uk,Water firms pour the sludge into 80 rivers and on dozens beaches around Britain, says the Marine Conservation Society. And water quality worsened last year

Radioactive sludge on hold for Bucks landfills  -  Jul 22, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer,The operator of two Bucks County landfills says it is suspending plans to dump radioactive sludge from the Limerick Nuclear power plant until public

Orangeburg plant rated 'unsatisfactory'  -  Aug 1, 2008
Lower Hudson Journal news,1 hopes to convince the county Legislature to amend a contract Tuesday so 1.35 million gallons of sludge can be removed from the district's plant in

Pool of Radioactive Sludge Being Cleaned at Hanford  -  Jul 25, 2008
KPLU,The giant underground pool at the Hanford Nuclear reservation was filled with radioactive fuel rods, sludge and garbage shielded by water. The only problem?

NDP calls for moratorium on sludge on crops  -  Jul 23, 2008
Northumberland Today,Several Northumberland County residents have been trying to get the word out about spreading sewage sludge on crops, and now NDP Critic for Health and

Sludge spill closes Route 209 in Polk Township  -  Jul 22, 2008
Pocono Record,The sludge splashed out of an open-top tractor trailer that had to stop quickly to avoid hitting a car stopped to turn left off Route 209.




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