Marilla residents to fight sludge storage on their land

Nancy Gish


The state Department of Environmental Conservation has authorized a permit for a fertilizer storage tank on a farm in Marilla, where black, red and white skull and crossbones signs in opposition to the material have popped up over the past few months.

The tank would store bio-solids from Quasar Energy digesters at a concrete holding tank on the Eastwood Road farm of Stanley Travis, town residents learned Tuesday night at a Town Board work session.

Marilla residents are expected to fill its town hall meeting room Thursday night to find out how the Town Board is going to continue to fight against sludge storage and potential spreading of sludge on farmland in the Town.

Residents had waited for months for the DEC to make a decision, most in attendance, didn’t like what they heard nor were they happy to hear there are 18 more applications in the pipeline to spread the digestate which is left over from the Quasar Energy disgesters after biogas is formed. The applications differ from Travis’ as these are asking for a permit to spread the digestate or bio solid on farmland in Marilla, Elma and Bennington.

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