The Feasibility of application of municipal sewage sludge on agricultural land in Massachusetts
Subtitle: report of a task force submitted to the Commission on Organic Waste Recycling, Evelyn Murphy, chairperson
By: Robert L. Christensen, [task force chairman].
Contributors: Christensen, R. L. 1935-; Task Force on the Feasibility of Sludge Application on Agricultural Land (Mass.); Commission on Organic Waste Recycling (Mass.)
Series: Research bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Massachusetts at Amherst ; no. 650; Research bulletin (Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station) ;; no. 650.
Publisher: Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, College of Food and Natural Resources
Published: 1977
Place of publication: [Amherst]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Sewage disposal in the ground -- Massachusetts.; Sewage sludge as fertilizer -- Massachusetts.; Sewage -- Microbiology.; Sewage -- Purification.; Sewage sludge -- Massachusetts.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Report of the Task Force on the Feasibility of Sludge Application on Agricultural Land.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, summary, and recommendations, prepared by the task force.; title: Elwood, J. R. and Isaac, R. A. Municipal sludge in Massachusetts.; title: Baker, J. H. and others. Agricultural lands as a receptor for sludge.; title: Huber, A. M. and Litsky, W. Public health considerations.; title: Christensen, R. L., Reisner, G., and Willis, C. E. Economic aspects of sludge application on agricultural land.; title: Wagner, J. Statutes, codes, and regulations pertaining to land application of sludge in Massachusetts.; title: Evanylo, G. and Hill, M. Appendix: The Colerain experiment.