Online ExclusivesWeekly Flush: ​Trainloads of Waste Are Stranded, Causing a Big Stink in a Small Alabama Town

Weekly Flush: ​Trainloads of Waste Are Stranded, Causing a Big Stink in a Small Alabama Town

Also in this week's septic-related news, a landlord is emptying his septic tank with a wheelbarrow and dumping it in a hole; and west Hawaii pumpers are fed up with their local treatment plant's policies

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Weekly Flush: ​Trainloads of Waste Are Stranded, Causing a Big Stink in a Small Alabama Town

A train full of biosolids is causing quite a stink in a small Alabama town. As many as 250 containers, or around 10 million pounds, of biosolids have been sitting stationary at a rail yard in Parrish since February, and the town’s residents are not happy campers. That’s...

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