L.A. CAN RESUME SLUDGE SHIPMENTS.Byline: KERRY CAVANAUGH Staff Writer One year after Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County residents voted to bar Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. from sending its treated sewage to its northern neighbor, a judge has overturned that ballot measure, meaning that L.A. can keep trucking sludge sludge (sluj) a suspension of solid or semisolid particles in a fluid which itself may or may not be a truly viscous fluid. sludge a suspension of solid or semisolid particles in a fluid. to its Green Acres Green Acre is a conference facility in Eliot, Maine, in the United States. It was founded by Sarah Farmer in 1894. After Sarah Farmer became a Bahá'í in 1900, many Bahá'í speakers were invited, including Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl in 1903, `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1912 and Mírzá Farm south of Bakersfield. The decision will save Los Angeles an estimated $21 million a year -- money the city would have spent to truck treated sewage, or biosolids biosolids Sewage sludge, the residues remaining from the treatment of sewage. For use as a fertilizer in agricultural applications, biosolids must first be stabilized through processing, such as digestion or the addition of lime, to reduce concentrations of heavy metals and , to Arizona. In his decision, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Allen Feess said the sludge ban discriminated against L.A. and violated the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. He argued that Measure E barred L.A. biosolids on the grounds that they were environmentally unsafe, yet allowed cities within Kern County to keep using biosolids as farmland fertilizer. Los Angeles trucks about 750 tons per day of treated human waste to its 5,000-acre farm in Kern County, where residents and politicians have long complained that L.A. uses the county as its dumping ground. Fueled by that resentment, voters there overwhelmingly passed Measure E in June 2006. Los Angeles officials have argued that the city's sludge is safe, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. said Monday that the city has tried to make Green Acres Farm a good neighbor. "We are hopeful that this court decision will permit us to work together to address the best interests of the residents of Kern and Los Angeles counties and of the environment," he said in a statement. kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 |
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