PANEL MAY PULL BAN ON SLUDGE.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer State water quality officials are considering rescinding a cease and desist order An order issued by an Administrative Agency or a court proscribing a person or a business entity from continuing a particular course of conduct. The force and effect of a cease and desist order are similar to those of an Injunction issued by a court. that stopped a Redlands company from spreading sewer SEWER. Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense. Crabb, R. P. Sec. 113. 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. on farmland in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . At a March 5 public hearing to be held in Lancaster, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board will consider rescinding the order issued in November 1996 against Pima Gro Systems Inc. following citizen complaints about violations of a sludge spreading permit. ``It's really a housekeeping item,'' said Hisam Baqai, a Lahontan engineer. ``They have no intention of spreading any more sludge. There's no need for further enforcement action.'' The water board had voted 7-0 in 1996 to issue the cease and desist order to Pima Gro Systems Inc., applying to five Antelope Valley farms, because of permit violations observed when the company spread sewage sludge Oct. 28 at the Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution Ranch at 90th Street East and Avenue H. Pima Gro violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. its permit by spreading sludge during heavy winds that blew the material off the farm, officials said. The company also failed to till the sludge into the soil within 12 hours after it was applied and failed to secure the field from the public. Anti-sludge activists videotaped the blowing sludge. Pima Gro officials did not return phone calls Thursday. During the Nov. 7, 1996, meeting, company officials said they would pull out of the Antelope Valley altogether because of the controversy over the use of sludge. |
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