Editor,
Please take a moment to let the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality know you object to Permit 5408-W, which will allow for land application of industrial wastewater residuals, primarily organic solids or semi-solid residues produced by wastewater treatment processes at food processing plants, animal processing plants, and animal food processing plants, in Carroll County, Arkansas, an area designated as a Nutrient Surplus Area.
Some of the fields sit atop karst terrain, which is extremely vulnerable to contamination, and some of the fields are not far from the Kings River.
This permit would allow for the over-application of phosphorus to soils that do not need the phosphorus; the watershed is already a Nutrient Surplus Area as described in the permit.
The beautiful environs of Carroll County should not be used as a dumping ground for industrial waste. Please email your comment to this address: Water-Draft-Permit-Comment@adeq.state.ar.us
Dane Schumacher
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