RE: Information

[Craig Reed <CReed@novoste.com>]

FYI: The sludge from the waste water treatment facility that you don't
want in your garden (aka backyard) ends up on your local farmers field,
irradiated or not.  It's called land-farming of sludge and there are
limits for radium (pCi/g), etc. when it's spread.   Yum yum!

Craig Reed
Novoste

mailto:creed@novoste.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kim Merritt [SMTP:Merritt9@llnl.gov]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 22, 1998 12:38 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: Information
> 
> If you are doing it for sterilization, I know that this was performed
> in
> the past in Albuquerque, NM.  They irradiated the solidified waste to
> sterilize it and then sold it as fertilizer.  Not something I'd put on
> my
> garden but I guess it works.  Sorry I don't have a contact or dates
> for it
> but it crept from the dark recesses of my brain.
> 
> 
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