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Offer for any location in the Maiden Creek Watershed:

If your property has a stream running through it and you would like to have the water quality tested, please contact Maiden Creek Watershed Association. The goals of our organization are to improve the quality of stream water, especially if there is sludged farmland that may be leaching into the water.

MCWA tests free of charge for DO, pH, Nitrates, Phosphorous and Turbidity.
Contact: Elaine Bartholomew
E-mail: Elaineb125@msn.com
Phone: 610-683-3795

Sewage-Based Fertilizer Safety Doubted


by John Heilprin and Kevin S. Vineys

Published on Friday, March 7, 2008 by Associated Press


It was a farm idea with a big payoff and supposedly no downside: ridding lakes and rivers of raw sewage and industrial pollution by converting it all into a free, nutrient-rich fertilizer. Then last week, a federal judge ordered the Agriculture Department to compensate a farmer whose land was poisoned by sludge from the waste treatment plant here. His cows had died by the hundreds. Read More

Sludge-Free Bagged Fertilizers

All Naturalink products- Ace Hardware Stores
All Timberline products- Home Depot Stores
All Twin Oaks products- Esbenshades Garden Centers
All Jolly Gardener products- Ace/Agway
All Hawk Valley Farms products, Kempton, PA
610-756-6259
Scotts top soil (red & white bag)-Lowes,
Weavers Hardware - Fleetwood, PA
Lowes topsoil- Lowes stores
Agway topsoil-Agway stores

If the bag says topsoil, it is topsoil. If the bag says it is humus from (location), it is probably all humus. If the bag says compost and nothing else, it is a "crap shoot" at best.

If a landfill or municipality is offering really cheap compost, it will probably have Class B sewage sludge mixed with green waste. Not sure? Phone the ‘fertilizer’ company before you buy – their contact info is listed on the side of the bag.

This is not a comprehensive list. Feel free to contact us with other sludge-free fertilizers companies.

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Sewage Sludge-Based Fertilizer Products

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