The public has a little more than two weeks to comment on Missouri rules regarding land application of waste from industrial and municipal treatment plants on farm fields. Proponents have characterized it as fertilizer, beneficial to farmers, while opponents characterize it as sludge, saying it threatens ground and surface water, health, and property values.

According to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the proposed rule amendment “aims to protect human health and the environment from impacts associated with the misapplication and mismanagement of land applied industrial wastewater and wastewater treatment residuals and the fields to which they are applied.” ×

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