Join the Call for a Washington Sewage Sludge Moratorium!
We are residents who live in an area near Davenport, Washington called Mill Canyon. We feel threatened by proposals to spread municipal sewage sludge on nearly 900 acres of nearby agricultural land uphill from where we live, garden and farm. The area in question includes our natural watershed. We are organizing to prevent a permit application to dump the sludge from being approved. If the permit is approved, we will file an appeal which will be very expensive. We are collecting donations for the legal fund now.
Not only do we demand that the permit application to apply sewage sludge in our watershed be denied, we are also demanding that Washington State Department of Ecology Director Maia Bellon and Washington State Governor Jay Inslee immediately impose a state-wide emergency moratorium on approving all pending permits for land application of sewage sludge until a thorough review of the science is completed and the findings incorporated into re-worked regulations pertaining to sewage sludge disposal and land application in the state.