What are the health-related impacts of the facility?
Commercial compost recycling has occurred in Southern California for the past 81 years and there is no scientific evidence of health-related impacts from the process or the use of composts. The State Water Resources Control Board found that, “To date, no significant outbreaks of infectious disease have been associated with biosolids land application practices.” The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences found that “there is no documented scientific evidence to indicate that the Part 503 rule (EPA’s Biosolids regulations) has failed to protect human health.
