The city of Fort Worth, Texas, ends a contract with the Goldman Sachs -backed fertilizer -backed fertilizer provider made of sewage mud on the concerns that the “chemicals of chemicals” in the fertilizer pollute the local agricultural lands and groundwater.
Fort Worth filed a lawsuit against several manufacturers of the city’s water resources, claiming that they polluted the water resources, and also called polyfluoroalkil substances or also called PFA.
The New York Times reported a group of farm owners who sued Synagro just south of Fort Worth last year and accused the fertilizer used in neighboring agricultural land to pollute their crops and animals.
The sewage secretion fertilizer came from Synagro, a contract to buy sewers from Fort Worth’s sewage treatment plant, treat more and distribute it to farmers as fertilizer. Since then, Johnson County has launched a criminal investigation into Synagro.
A growing research group has shown that sewage sludge, mostly used as fertilizer, can be contaminated by PFA, a synthetic chemical, commonly used in daily products such as non -stick pots and stain resistant carpets.
Chemicals Depending on a number of diseases Do not break down in the environment, including increased risk of cancer. When used as fertilizer on Tined sludge agricultural land, it can pollute soil, groundwater, crops and animal husbandry.
In January, the Environmental Protection Agency warned that PFAs, which are also known as biosolids for the first time, may pose human health risks. Maine, the only state of systematically testing agricultural lands for PFAs, detected chemicals on dozens of milk farm. However, very few tests were performed in other states in farms.
Fort Worth Municipal Assembly Unanimously selected According to the Council records, it was signed with Synagro to cancel a 10 -year contract signed with Synagro on Tuesday 2019.
The city did not specify a reason to terminate the contract. However, in a lawsuit filed by Fort Worth against producers of PFAS chemicals, the city stated that PFA’s existence in the city’s drinking water resources and waste water infrastructure.
Synagro said in a statement that the company and Fort Worth have agreed to allocate all the allegations and solve all the allegations after the ongoing disputes on contract requirements ”. He said Tesihin had nothing to do with PFA. The city’s water department did not respond immediately to the request for comment.
Synagro, owned by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, claimed that his biosolides polluted Texas agricultural land. This month, the company filed a lawsuit to reject the claims of Johnson County Farm owners, and concluded that mud manure could not be the source of high PFA levels found in farms of farm owners.
Synagro also said that the tests show much lower PFA levels than allegedly claimed by farm owners in the soil. The company did not publish the investigation publicly.
While farmers stopped sending their cattle to the market, they continued to look at them and said they had faced financial destruction.
“Fort Worth terminated his contracts with Synagro early, and also claims that Synagro’s biosolides did not cause pollution in the land of our customers, Mar said Marry Whittle for farmers. “Not just gather.”
Dana Ames, an environmental researcher who leads Johnson County’s Synagro investigation, said that “a comprehensive investigation” found high levels of PFA on the property of the farm owner. “We have excluded all other sources of contamination. We tested biosolides and found contamination,” he said.
At the Council meeting, Luanne Langley, a resident of Texas, Grandview, accused the city of standing, Synagro lad biosolids to non -suspicious landowners and farmers. He said it was not enough to cancel the contract. “How will this help families whose lives are destroyed?” he said.
