TRR photo by Sandy Long Ned Lang, owner of EnviroVentures, Narrowsburg, NY and Diane Garvey, president of Garvey Resources, a consulting firm specializing in biosolids, stand in a Lang building where non-biodegradable debris is removed before being hauled to a landfill. The lime in the background will be mixed into the remaining sewage sludge to begin its processing into biosolids. A nearby tank farm has the capacity to store up to 130,000 gallons of septage and sludge.

Biosolids big bucks

A ‘resource’ in more ways than one

By SANDY LONG

NARROWSBURG, NY—Some used to call it nightsoil, hearkening to the practice of applying raw human excrement to farm fields to increase soil fertility under cover of darkness. Back then, local waste hauler Ned Lang’s father applied septage to his own farm at the top of Peggy Runway, now Steep Hill Road in Pennsylvania. “My father utilized this resource, and we had the best crops around,” said Lang, who today provides biosolids, or treated sewage sludge, to 34 sites in Wayne County and two in Pike County, PA.

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Problems for Pike library

Makeup of library board is questioned

By TOM KANE

MILFORD, PA—Losing the referendum on the library tax by a vote of four to one was bad enough, but now the Pike County Public Library (PCPL) is facing a public outcry about the makeup of its board.

To add further to their troubles, the county commissioners support efforts to choose board members who are more representative of the makeup of the county’s population, following the objections of the Taxpayers United group.

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Decision time at the landfill

Hauling away the solid waste

By FRITZ MAYER

MONTICELLO, NY—With the county landfill set to close in January 2011, or shortly thereafter, lawmakers must soon decide which company will get the contract to haul away the county’s solid waste. Two companies made presentations at the government center on November 19: IESI/Seneca Meadows and Casella Waste Systems.

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Other stories in this issue:

• Dimock families sue Cabot
• Bethel voting results unchanged
• Tale of two towers
• Eldred cemetery documented

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