Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic's Biosolids Website!

biosolid n. (1977): "solid organic matter recovered from a sewage
treatment process,and used especially as fertilizer -- usually used in plural"
-Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition

Chicago Research Demonstrates Dioxins are No Problem

The JEQ article can be viewed in Research

Review the WEF Amicus Brief in the LA City Appeal

See this brief and other articles in Documents 

WeCare Organics Announces Acquisition of Vermitech

This news item is the press release from Jeff LeBlanc, WeCare Organics, of its purchase of an Australian technology in use at two locations in Pennsylvania, based on earthworm composting of biosolids.  Go to the WeCare Press Release on the News page

UPCOMING!  Certification of Biosolids Land Appliers

MABA Posts References and Resources for the ABC Test

MABA Post Resources for Training and Testing in Pennsylvania

MABA releases "Toxic Journalism: An analysis of the Associated Press Article on the use of Compost to Mitigate Lead Poisoning in Baltimore"

Read more about the controversial AP article on biosolids compost use in Baltimore and the response by the research community.  These include:

• The AP articles that appeared in April and May 2008

• June 2008 Reference Library compilation of abstracts of the original research

• Four research papers that are the research articles on lead, soil and compost

• Sally Brown's recent commentary in BioCycle Magazine 

• The June 13 Newsweek article by the AP substantially retracting the original ones

• The Baltimore Sun commentary and blog, published 6/20

To view these article and related ones, go to this Document News

For several of the orginial research articles on compost and lead, go to Research

MABA Announces a Uniquely Humorous Glimpse at the Operations of Biosolids Processing,  

through the Magical Pen of Bruce Johnson. 

Reserve Your Copy Today. 

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Mark Your Calendar: 

Biosolids Conference Symposium, November 19-20, 2008

Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre & Meeting Facility

Arlington, Virginia

THE GREATEST MEDICAL ADVANCE SINCE 1840?!

Sewage Treatment

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AboutBiosolids, MABA'S new newsletter

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Biosolids... part of keeping water clean.
MABA is comprised of environmental professionals in the water pollution control field. We are committed to keeping waters in our rivers, lakes and aquifers clean.  A byproduct of clean water is biosolids. We hope you will join us in supporting environmentally sound biosolids management.  MABA and its members are clean water experts who know that biosolids recycling is often the best tool for managing biosolids.

Biosolids... recycling nutrients back to soils.
If you want to help protect soils and open lands in the Mid Atlantic, support biosolids recycling.  Biosolids products are efficient fertilizers and soil amendments that build soils, restore barren lands, and help keep landscapes open and growing.

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MABA Members!  You have access to "New Items in the NBMA Research Library."