Sludge is dirty business.

Sewage sludge, or "biosolids," is the solid material removed from wastewater treatment plants. Its deadly poisons were the impetus for the Federal Clean Water Act. Deadly for rivers, it shouldn't be applied to agricultural land and end up on our dinner plates. Join us as we plow through the minefields of how sludge is impacting central Virginia and the nation as a whole. Here you can get informed, get inflamed and get active. Let's find a clean answer to the dirty business of sludge.

  • Keep Sewage Sludge out of Backyard Gardens

    05.16.12

    Interested in improving your health, eating fresh vegetables from your own backyard garden, and providing food you know is good for you and your family? Make sure you don’t use sewage sludge composite in those garden beds. read more

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