{"id":4051,"date":"2019-10-27T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2019-10-27T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T17:21:43","slug":"lakeland-and-polk-county-leaders-have-failed-to-address-our-poop-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/10\/27\/lakeland-and-polk-county-leaders-have-failed-to-address-our-poop-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland and Polk County leaders have failed to address our poop problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Opinion Bill Scott Lakeland resident <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s talk about poop, that\u2019s right Human shit \u2013aka Biosolids.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No one I know really enjoys an honest and candid\nconversation on the matter, rightly preferring innuendo, puns, and jokes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in Lakeland, it\u2019s a serious issue and our policies in managing human waste are front and center in our political discourse today. Polk County Commissioners approved that Lakeland becomes the dumping ground of BIOSOLIDS!! And since it\u2019s outside the city limits the City of Lakeland can not do anything about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our elected leaders are allowing poop to come from all over\nFlorida to be dumped in Lakeland Fl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And allowing this company to sell \u201cso-call\u201d organic mulch to\nfarmers in Polk and Hillsborough County\u2019s <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your RED Sweet Juicy Strawberry\u2019s from Plant City may be contaminated with Human Biosolids???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biosolids being spread on farmlands have been the subject of much city, county, and state-level debate as new policies are required to deal with an expanding problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to focus on human biosolids. This is the dried solid\nmaterial that is extracted from raw sewage treatment, and it has bits of\neverything that goes down our toilets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This algal bloom is part of a larger problem facing the entire BS Ranch and Farm, Saddle Creek Area, Lake Hancock, Peace River, and Charlotte Harbor area and almost all scientific evidence points to BS Ranch and Farm in flood-prone areas adjacent to the river as the leading source of the nutrient overloading that is feeding these harmful blooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In response to the human health concerns and the threat to\nour drinking water supply, that Polk county finds its self in unfamiliar territory.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As South Florida counties began banning the spreading of\nbiosolids on farmlands, and landfills quickly saw capacity filling up,\ntreatment plants found themselves needing new places to dispose of this waste\nso they ship it to Lakeland aka BS Ranch and Farm, which is either a Ranch or\nFarm \u2013 See Photo Below\u2026\u2026\u201cThe Mecca of Shit\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all agree that properly managing our waste in the face of\ngrowth has become a public problem in need of new policy solutions, but who is\ngoing to solve it? Our local representatives and governments seem unable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has been untrustworthy\nat best when it comes to protecting the environment at the expense of special\ninterest profits. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA under President\nTrump has made it clear that regulating pollution is the opposite of what it\nintends to do. All are passing the buck back and forth on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poop jokes and puns might make us all giggle, and feel a little better about something we are helpless to prevent by ourselves. But our health and safety as a community depend on clean drinking water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all pay taxes and fees to have a good common solution to\nwhat is an unavoidable condition and sanitary need of human existence. I think\nif we don\u2019t begin to call this crap from our government and elected officials\nwhat it is, we can expect it to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opinion Bill Scott Lakeland resident Let\u2019s talk about poop, that\u2019s right Human shit \u2013aka Biosolids. No one I know really enjoys an honest and candid conversation on the matter, rightly… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"27","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed-and-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}