Open AccessLand Application of Treated Sewage Sludge: Community Health and Environmental Justice
Author(s) -
Amy Lowman,
Mary Anne McDonald,
Steve Wing,
Naeema Muhammad
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1205470
Subject(s) - environmental justice , sewage , environmental planning , environmental science , sewage sludge , environmental health , business , environmental protection , environmental resource management , medicine , environmental engineering , ecology , biology
In the United States, most of the treated sewage sludge (biosolids) is applied to farmland as a soil amendment. Critics suggest that rules regulating sewage sludge treatment and land application may be insufficient to protect public health and the environment. Neighbors of land application sites report illness following land application events.
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