Editorial
Future Land Application Efforts Hinge on Effective Education of Government Officials
Let me tell you a story. In the early 1980s, I was on a steering committee that was trying to decide what to do with the septage produced by escalating rural development. The conclusion was more land application. Then, as now, when people heard that term, they envisioned the contents of their toilet dumped on agricultural fields. The Pennsylvania legislature responded by passing stringent land application regulations.
