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Several dozen shipping containers filled with sewage sludge from New York and New Jersey have been parked at a rail yard in the small town of Parrish, Ala. since February, but town officials say the smell emanating from the cars won't impact the town's largest event of the year, scheduled for this weekend.

Parrish Mayor Heather Hall told AL.com that the Parrish Coal Fest will go on as planned this weekend, complete with a barbecue cook-off, car show, live music, and exhibits celebrating the town's coal mining heritage.

Hall said the cool weather has helped ease the smell emanating from the cars.

"Because the temperatures are so low, [the smell] is not a problem," Hall said Friday amid a flurry of activity to prepare for the festival.

The event will go on as scheduled today from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The event will be held at the Parrish Community Center, the old Parrish High School, which is just over a hill from the rail yard where the train cars have been parked.

Hall -- who has gone on national news outlets in recent weeks to talk about how the smells from the train have impacted her town -- said the situation is improving at the rail yard. At one point, Hall said more than 252 containers were sitting on trains waiting to be hauled by truck about 20 miles to the Big Sky Environmental landfill in Adamsville.

"A lot of the containers are gone," Hall said. "We drove by this morning and over half of them were gone, so they are really working to try and help us with that and I'm really thankful for that."

The containers are loaded with a material called sewer sludge or biosolids, which is the solid material left behind after conventional wastewater treatment processes.

The landfill in Adamsville got approval in December 2016 from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to import the sludge from seven wastewater treatment plants in New York and New Jersey to use as alternative cover for the landfill. According to the application, the biosolids will be mixed with dirt and spread over top of the landfill cells to encourage plant growth.

However, since that approval came through, local residents have been raising a stink since the trains began passing through their towns.
Sewage sludge rolls into Jefferson despite legal fight
Sewage sludge rolls into Jefferson despite legal fight


The trains first started rolling into Parrish in February, after being blocked from using a different rail yard in Jefferson County. The county argued that the loading and unloading of the containers at a rail yard there constituted a zoning violation due to the obnoxious odors.

The trains also were parked for at least a week on tracks inside the Birmingham city limits, but were moved from there after complaints from Birmingham residents.

It's unclear what will happen after the last of the containers are moved from the rail yard in Parrish.

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection told reporters last month New York City would no longer send its sludge to the Big Sky landfill, but it's uncertain whether the landfill will bring in the material from other cities or wastewater treatment plants.
New York stops sewage trains to Alabama landfill

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I always knew NY was full of shit...




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Back when I was a young man in the mid-70's, one of my high school classmates was working as a dispatcher for a local trucking company. One of their customers was the county wastewater treatment plant that advertised their sludge as the perfect garden enhancement product. There seemed to be an endless line of folks at the county dump filling all manner of containers with the stuff. So my dad gets a brilliant idea and asks Kent to divert a "small truckload" to his garden. He comes home to find an enormous pile of shit in the front yard, blocking the driveway, and stinking to high heaven! When he confronted my friend, that he asked for only a small truckload, Kent's reply was "six yard's the smallest truck we've got!" It took about three years to use up the crap, but he grew very proud of his tomatoes, it really did help the garden. I live in the house now, and some of the old time neighbors still talk about it from time-to-time.
 
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There was a guy
An under water guy who controlled the sea
Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
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In 1987 there was the New York garbage barge.
In March it was shipped out from Inslip for disposal out of state in North Carolina. There, someone asked if anything was toxic. New York's reply was "We don't know." The barge then traveled south to the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually, six states and two countries rejected it. The barge returned to New York, the garbage burned and the ash returned to Inslip in September.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...rge-article-1.812895



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In 1987 there was the New York garbage barge.
In March it was shipped out from Inslip for disposal out of state in North Carolina. There, someone asked if anything was toxic. New York's reply was "We don't know." The barge then traveled south to the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually, six states and two countries rejected it. The barge returned to New York, the garbage burned and the ash returned to Inslip in September.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...rge-article-1.812895


This was satirized by Futurama haha

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...Big_Piece_of_Garbage




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In 1987 there was the New York garbage barge.
In March it was shipped out from Inslip for disposal out of state in North Carolina. There, someone asked if anything was toxic. New York's reply was "We don't know." The barge then traveled south to the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually, six states and two countries rejected it. The barge returned to New York, the garbage burned and the ash returned to Inslip in September.

I was in NJ at the time and the rumor was it brought back tons of coke. It stunk so bad no one would go near it to inspect it.


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