Local Health Impacts of Land Application of Sewage Sludge

污泥土地利用对当地健康的影响

• 批准号: 8145307
• 负责人: Steven B Wing
• 金额: $ 47.12万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-12 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8145307
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Agriculture; Allergens; Amendment; Animals; Area; Baltimore; Chemicals; Cities; Communities; Community Health Education; Country; Data; Dust; Education; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ensure; Entropy; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental sludge; Epidemiologic Studies; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Exposure to; Family suidae; Fertilizers; Government Agencies; Government Officials; Health; Health Policy; Home environment; Hospitals; Incineration; Industry; Internet; Interview; Leadership; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Low income; Manure; Medical; Medical History; Metals; Methods; Modeling; Municipalities; Neighborhoods; North Carolina; Nutrient; Oceans; Odors; Outcome; Participant; Particulate Matter; Perception; Persons; Pharmacologic Substance; Physiological; Plants; Production; Public Health; Quality of life; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Residual state; Resources; Respiratory physiology; Risk Assessment; Rural; Safety; Sample Size; Sampling; Schools; Services; Sewage; Site; Soil; Solid; Source; Structure; Symptoms; Telephone; Testing; Trust; United States National Academy of Sciences; Universities; Virginia; Washington; Water; Water Pollution; Weather; Weight; Wing; Work; air sampling; authority; base; diaries; environmental justice; experience; exposed human population; follow-up; gastrointestinal; health related quality of life; landfill; member; migration; pathogen; prospective; respiratory; rural area; safety practice; symposium; time use; waste treatment; wasting; water treatment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Approximately 16,000 municipal waste water treatment plants in the US produce over seven million tons (dry weight) of residual sludge each year; most is applied to agricultural lands as free fertilizer. This sludge, also known as biosolids, consists of sediments resulting from the treatment of waste water from homes, streets, schools, hospitals, and industries. In addition to nutrients useful for agriculture sludges contain pathogens, allergens, metals, industrial chemicals and Pharmaceuticals. As land application of sludges has increased, neighboring rural residents have reported health problems and impaired quality of life. Residents whose concerns have been dismissed by government officials have low trust in authorities and in health research conducted by government agencies and university researchers who have ties with sludge generators and industries that profit from sludge disposal. Many affected communities are in low income, rural areas, making land application of sludge an environmental justice issue. Since the 1990's community members from across the country have organized through conferences and the internet to seek assistance in conducting research into health problems that may be caused by land application of sewage sludge, and to educate citizens and government officials. Using CBPR methods developed in prior research on human exposure to hog waste, and building on community and research partnerships solidified at a recent participatory workshop, we propose to conduct an assessment of off-site migration of sludge constituents linked to an epidemiologic study of neighbors of sites permitted for land application of sludges. We will recruit neighbors of sites permitted for sludge application in North Carolina and Virginia to participate in a one-year longitudinal study of environmental exposures, symptoms, physiological functioning, and health- related quality of life. Neighbors in two types of areas will participate: areas where permits have been issued but no land application has yet occurred; and areas where sludges have been recently applied. Recruitment will be accompanied by environmental health and environmental justice education conducted under the leadership of experienced community based organizations.

描述（由申请人提供）：美国大约 16,000 个城市污水处理厂每年产生超过 700 万吨（干重）剩余污泥；大部分作为免费肥料施用于农田。这种污泥也称为生物固体，由家庭、街道、学校、医院和工业废水处理过程中产生的沉积物组成。除了对农业有用的营养物质外，污泥还含有病原体、过敏原、金属、工业化学品和药物。随着污泥土地利用的增加，邻近的农村居民报告了健康问题和生活质量下降。那些担心被政府官员驳回的居民对当局以及政府机构和大学研究人员进行的健康研究的信任度较低，这些研究人员与污泥产生者和从污泥处理中获利的行业有联系。许多受影响的社区位于低收入农村地区，这使得污泥的土地利用成为一个环境正义问题。自1990年代以来，全国各地的社区成员通过会议和互联网组织起来，寻求帮助，对污水污泥土地利用可能造成的健康问题进行研究，并对公民和政府官员进行教育。使用先前关于人类接触生猪粪便的研究中开发的 CBPR 方法，并以最近的参与式研讨会上巩固的社区和研究伙伴关系为基础，我们建议对污泥成分的场外迁移进行评估，该评估与附近居民的流行病学研究相关。允许污泥土地利用的场地。我们将招募北卡罗来纳州和弗吉尼亚州允许污泥施用场地的邻居参与一项为期一年的纵向研究，研究环境暴露、症状、生理功能和健康相关的生活质量。两类地区的邻居将参与：已颁发许可证但尚未申请土地的地区；以及最近应用污泥的区域。招募的同时将在经验丰富的社区组织的领导下进行环境健康和环境正义教育。

项目成果

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• 发表时间: 2004-10
• 影响因子: 0.8
• 作者: Basta, Patricia V;Whitmore, Sarah P;Basham, Karen B;Whisnant, Carol C
• 通讯作者: Whisnant, Carol C

Suitability of public records for evaluating health effects of treated sewage sludge in North Carolina.

公共记录用于评估北卡罗来纳州处理后的污水污泥对健康影响的适用性。

• 发表时间: 2011-03
• 作者: Keil, Alexander;Wing, Steven;Lowman, Amy
• 通讯作者: Lowman, Amy

Land application of treated sewage sludge: community health and environmental justice.

处理后的污水污泥的土地应用：社区健康和环境正义。

• 发表时间: 2013-05
• 影响因子: 10.4
• 作者: Lowman, Amy;McDonald, Mary Anne;Wing, Steve;Muhammad, Naeema
• 通讯作者: Muhammad, Naeema

Odors from sewage sludge and livestock: associations with self-reported health.

污水污泥和牲畜的气味：与自我报告的健康状况的关联。

• 发表时间: 2014-11
• 作者: Wing, Steve;Lowman, Amy;Keil, Ale;Marshall, Stephen W
• 通讯作者: Marshall, Stephen W