The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District disregarded studies finding PFAS in food grown in its compost and downplayed health risks, documents show.
“These results may also have important implications with respect to the potential routes of exposure in humans who might have repeatedly used to fertilize their home gardens.”
Unloading sludge on others enables sewage districts to save money on disposal costs. The impact on individual gardeners is unknown — diseases caused by PFAS exposure can be diagnosed years later — but in July a team of New York University researchers estimated forever chemicals could saddle the current U.S.
Agreements between the city and nonprofit groups responsible for day-to-day management of the programIt appears either somebody didn’t read the documents carefully or City Hall failed to realize why the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District signed on as a Grounds for Peace partner.on 26 lots in Woodlawn, Englewood and North Lawndale, a district tally shows.: The former home of Mamie Till-Mobley and her son, Emmett Till, a Black teenager tortured and murdered during a 1955 visit to Mississippi.
Kimberly Worthington, a deputy city commissioner, said in an email that she and her staff did not know the material described as compost by the MWRD was sewage sludge. After district officials forwarded a copy of the 2015 state law vouching for the safety of sludge-based compost, Worthington requested the results of any PFAS testing.
This summer the lot bloomed with flowers planted in clean soil and mulch. Signs declare it is a garden and theater for the Till-Mobley Museum.
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