D2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25,1982
A rose by any other name ...
The agricultural pollution hassle
seems to be going m opposite
directions at the same time. While
one line <jf thinking suggests that
tarmers are the cause of an awful
lot ot pollution, another indicates
that farm and forest land will be
the ultimate and best dumping
grounds tor all sorts ot unwanted
things.
It’s hard to see how the same
patch ot ground can be both
polluter and savior at the same
time. But trial's what’s oeen
suggested
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taken away from tarmers because
they are said to be unsafe tor the
environment.
And yet, while the attack on
agricultural pollution continues,
other ecologists who teel just as
strongly about our environment
are looking at ways to make our
open spaces farm and torest
dumping grounds tor urban gar
bage.
Research conducted at the
University ot Florida makes the
point rather well pine trees grow
oeltei in a mixtui e ot garbageaml
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with a bare four-acre plot that had
been in timber. They mixed gar
bage and sludge from a secondary
sewage treatment plant and
worked it into the soil at the rale of
100 tons per acre. Pine seedlings
were planted in the fall.
By the next spring, it was ob
vious that the seedlings were doing
better in the garbage plots. They
survived the winter better, and
were much taller and healthier in
appearance. Some trees reached a
height of five feel in only eight
months, in addition, a dense un
dergrowth developed on the
garbage plots, protecting the soil
from erosion and providing lood
and cover tor wildlife.
Since trees aren’t food, there’s
no danger of human con
tamination, and the long growing
period tor pines 20 to 30 years
allows tor large amounts of gar
bage and sewage to decompose
slowly. There appears to be no
leaching or run-ott problems in
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better than regular soil. Thai’s one
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reason why it grows larger and
more trees.
There would appear to be a lot ot
good reasons for using garbage on
forest land. It would seem to he a
good use and we need the trees. No
doubt the "forces for good” in this
world can think ot reasons why this
shouldn’t be done. It they can stop
manure spreading, which they’re
still trying hard to do, they will
probably stop sludge spreading
even it it is m a forest.
But looking at the other side tor a
moment, suppose this garbage
thing catches on and the ecologists
accept it? Where would a city like
Wilmington find a woods big
enough to take its output? Or tor
that matter, a farmer or forester
willing to take it?
The Florida researchers say a
tew hundred acres could handle
the waste from a city ol 100,000
people. But there are a lot ot cities
and if this idea works they will all
want forest land for dumps. As the
population and garbage output
increase, available space will run
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out and the same fanner who is
being told not to spread cow
manure on land may be required to
spread urban waste a few years
hence.
The point that really grabs me
out of all this is that the decisions
to spread or not spread and tM
material to be spread or nW
spread, will be determined by
people who have never been any
closer to a farm than the drifting
odor from a manure pile.
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