A bureaucratic foul-up caused a 42-car train with 400 containers of New York poop to ferment in Parrish, Alabama's rail yard for two months. The residents were not happy. You can read about this rail constipation off the link. The New York Times finds the best stories, really, they do!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/nyregion/poop-train-alabama.html
Where does OUR sludge go? Last I heard, it was trucked to Engel and Gray in Santa Maria. But what happens if they fill up? A sludge train from our county to the large facility in the Central Valley (yes there was a great deal of controversy in the early 2000s and beyond) could help us out! We sure don't want oil trains in this county, but what about poop trains? (And will we have any choice?)
http://www.synagro.com/offerings/rail-transportation/
Check out their location map!
http://www.synagro.com/locations/
And finally, for more sewage information - a bit of history, a lot of money, wimpy regulations, and LAWSUITS! Read an excellent paper, Regulate This: The Politics and Practice of Poo Farming, by a Harvard Law School student on what we euphemistically call - biosolids!
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852199/Christenson06.html?sequence=2
(There is a wealth of resources just in the footnotes!)
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