The Environmental Protection Agency allows sewer sludge to be recycled and used as fertilizer to grow food. But many say the sludge causes illness and even death.
Muddy fields are irresistible to boys, especially boys with motorcycles.
Tony Behun, whose elementary-school principal recalls him as a super kid whom everybody liked, was no exception. Pa. its population in 1996 was 1,282. Only it wasn t mud. It was sewer sludge a by-product from chemically treated human waste, which the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, insists is safe to recycle as fertilizer. So it hired the Washington public-relations firm of Powell Tate to find a more commodious term.