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Environment & Energy

Jilly_in_VA

(9,966 posts)

2. In Madison, WI

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 02:52 PM

Mar 2022

everyone in our neighborhood used Milorganite on their lawns. It was made from sludge from the Milwaukee sewage system and smelled like it. Now I wonder about that neighborhood. Several of the kids I grew up with have died of cancer as adults.

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'I don't know how we'll survive': the farmers facing ruin in Maine's 'forever chemicals' crisis [View all] Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 OP

I remember as a very young kid going with my dad to pick up sludge for our vegetable garden. mn9driver Mar 2022 #1

Its kind of interesting to me because this was the research area of my master's thesis... LT Barclay Mar 2022 #3

In Madison, WI Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 #2