“For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the federal government to spread municipal sewage on millions of acres of farmland…”
If you were a typical person outside the clean-water industry, would that scare you? Millions of people likely read those words in a Sunday New York Times article published Aug. 31.The article raises the specter that biosolids contain the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. It repeatedly refers to biosolids as “sewage fertilizer” and cites anecdotal, thinly verified cases of land contamination, health issues in livestock and health threats to people.Leaders of biosolids management organizations responded strongly to the article
