It began in the spring.
One day, some signs appeared along a two-mile stretch of Plank Road, in Southern Albemarle County. Not long after that, big trucks came in and out of those properties spreading something foul. Their tires left mud and muck on the pavement up and down Plank Road. For two weeks, you had to roll up your windows and turn off the AC as your drove through, because it smelled like someone had opened the gates of hell. A smell so bad, it defied description.
Friends and neighbors started talking, comparing notes on what they knew about biosolids. One of us called the number on the signs. No one answered. As we researched biosolids, we learned to call them by their real name: sewage sludge. The more we read, the more alarmed we became.
So, we decided to get together and do something about it. We remain a grassroots collective, with the shared goal of stopping the land application of sewage sludge in our county and our state. We’re glad you are here and hope you will join us in this effort.