The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and the Center for Health, Environment & Justice will host a public meeting on the risks to public health and the environment from spreading sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants on farmlands. The meeting will be on June 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Cane Creek Baptist Church Activities Center on Orange Grove Road and is free and open to the public.
Speakers include Stephen Lester, science director for the Center for Health, Environment & Justice; Elaine Chiosso, Haw Riverkeeper and executive director of the Haw River Assembly; Andy McElmurray, a Georgia dairy farmer who lost hundreds of heads of cattle and thousands of acres of productive farmland due to sewage sludge; and Myra Dotson, an Orange County resident and chair of the newly formed Sewage Sludge Action Network, Orange County.