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DoomsdaysCW<p>Oh yeah. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidgeLandfill</span></a> is NOT a solution!</p><p>Time is running out to find new solutions to manage <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biosolids</span></a> in Maine</p><p>A new report shows that capacity at a state-owned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landfill</span></a> will run out in 2028. </p><p>PORTLAND, Maine — "There are growing concerns about the state's ability to handle waste and the impact it could have on wastewater treatment facilities in just a few years. Tons of wastewater <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sludge</span></a>, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biosolids</span></a>, are shipped to a state-owned landfill every day. That sludge is laced with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a>. </p><p>"State regulators say if investments aren't made to manage it, the landfill could be at capacity by 2028. The Portland Water District's East End plant takes in 25,000 pounds of solid waste daily.</p><p>"'What comes in has to go out, so when we have interruptions in the ability to manage biosolids, that is a huge challenge,' Scott Firmin, director of Portland Wastewater Services with the Portland Water District, explained.</p><p>"The utility has nearly 100,000 customers in the Greater Portland area and ships the byproduct of that waste, known as sludge or biosolids, to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidgeLandfill</span></a> near <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OldTownMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldTownMaine</span></a>. </p><p>"Last summer, it was left scrambling after <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Casella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Casella</span></a> Waste Systems said it could not safely accept municipal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sludge</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidge</span></a> after shipments of construction debris needed to stabilize the site were banned.</p><p>"'Ninety percent of the biosolids generated in Maine go to that landfill,' Firmin said."</p><p><a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/tech/science/environment/pfas/time-is-running-out-to-find-new-solutions-to-manage-biosolids-in-maine-waste-pfas/97-0e674c1a-6c51-40a6-b297-5438e2cda549" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscentermaine.com/article/te</span><span class="invisible">ch/science/environment/pfas/time-is-running-out-to-find-new-solutions-to-manage-biosolids-in-maine-waste-pfas/97-0e674c1a-6c51-40a6-b297-5438e2cda549</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLIfe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLIfe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CompostingToilets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CompostingToilets</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDestruction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotRiver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] What to do with all those <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biosolids</span></a>? (And why are they full of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> in the first place, I wonder.) Talk of building a Biosolid to Energy plant in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrunswickMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrunswickMaine</span></a> but the leftover ick will be dumped at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidge</span></a> -- where it can leech into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotRiver</span></a> where the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> live and fish! (And talk about treating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredPlaces</span></a> the way they should be -- the Penobscot River is one of those places that should be granted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Personhood</span></a>)!</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>'It's killing us': Public reacts to proposed expansion of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidgeLandfill</span></a> </p><p>Story by Katie Delaney <br>7/16/2024</p><p>"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidge</span></a> has destroyed the life of people who live around it. At times, it has destroyed part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotRiver</span></a>; it has destroyed part of our air, water, and land,' Don White, a Bucksport resident, said.</p><p>"Public commenters expressed concerns about harmful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landfill</span></a> fires, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> contamination coming from the facility.</p><p>"Many of the people speaking out said Juniper Ridge is an example of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalInjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalInjustice</span></a>, particularly for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a>.</p><p>"'It's killing us,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KathyPaul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KathyPaul</span></a>, a Penobscot Nation Elder, said. 'I just feel like I'm sitting here waiting to die, and I don't mean to be an extremist or anything like that, but I'm really afraid. I can smell the difference already.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-s-killing-us-public-reacts-to-proposed-expansion-of-juniper-ridge-landfill/ar-BB1q7p5j" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-s-</span><span class="invisible">killing-us-public-reacts-to-proposed-expansion-of-juniper-ridge-landfill/ar-BB1q7p5j</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidgeLandfill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CasellaWasteSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CasellaWasteSystems</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaineNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicFire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFASPollution</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DontWasteME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontWasteME</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slingshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slingshot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a></p>
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