WEF/WERF
Water Environment Federation/Water Environment Research Foundation
The public relations package for:
After 25 years of promoting sludge use as a safe fertilizer and soil amendment, WEF Study Finds Fecal Coliforms
Appear to Reactivate in Centrifuge Dewatered Solids At Four of Seven Facilities Tested. Never mind the fact that during
that 25 years there have been over 400 papers written on the subject.
The WEF was concerned when it got no media coverage on this new study and no activist was making noises about it,
so WEF personnel called an activist in Canada to put out the information.
When WEF/WERF released the Viable, but non-culturable bacteria study, the PR package was in place to control media
coverage
Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF)
http://www.werf.org/pdf/ReactivationFactSheet.pdf
Study Finds Fecal Conforms Appear to Reactivate in Centrifuge Dewatered Solids At Four of Seven Facilities Tested
WERF-VBNC.html
Water Environment Federation
Background Information Regarding WERF Study
http://www.wef.org/NR/rdonlyres/085AEFE0-0045-44D6-A905-CDBEB41B8C39/0/FecalColiformFacts.pdf
The Rest of The Story with facts
With all of the government research by WEF/WERF and it's scientific partners, they would like the public to believe the
"viable, but non-culturable" phenomenon is new to them and EPA. In the June 2006 Viable, but non-culturable disease
causing organisms in sludge study, WEF scientists now admit in the study, "The issue of viable but non-culturable
(VBNC) bacteria was advanced in the 1980s, and gained significant interest in medicine, the food industry,
and many other fields."
For the past twenty-five years public health, our lives, as well as the quality of our air, water and food has been firmly in
the hands of waste disposal people within EPA and WEF. After 25 years of putting the public health, air, water and food
chain at risk by promoting sewage sludge as a safe fertilizer and garden soil amendment free of disease causing
organisms -- Twelve years of running a government funded public relations program to discredit people who have been
exposed to the disease causing organisms and suffered sickness, and even death --Ten years of funding scientific
studies to assure the public disease causing organisms in sludge are eliminated or killed -- Yet, these waste disposal
scientists now want us to give them time to study the problem and how to fix it. But, WEF only plans to do more research
on one non-disease causing organism as an indicator for the 1,407 human pathogen species that may be in sludge and
there is no fix to kill a spore forming bacteria or fungi.
http://deadlydeceit.com/WERF-VBNC.html
“Examination of Reactivation and Regrowth of Fecal Coliforms in Centrifuge
Dewatered, Anaerobically Digested Sludges”
http://deadlydeceit.com/WERF-VBNC-backgr.html
WEF’s Q&As Regarding the WERF Report:
“Examination of Reactivation and Regrowth of Fecal Coliforms in Centrifuge
Dewatered, Anaerobically Digested Sludges”
http://deadlydeceit.com/WEFRF-VBNC-Q-A.html
EPA Fact Sheet: A WERF Study Finds Fecal Coliforms Appear to Reactivate
In Centrifuge Dewatered Solids at Four of Seven Facilities Tested
http://deadlydeceit.com/EPA-VBNC.html
NACWA -- formerly called AMSA --- a partner in a federal lawsuit to remove chromium from the part
503 guidelines. EPA now allows it members to allow removal credits of 100,000 ppm for chromium if it is land
applied in sludge as a fertilizer. REGULATORY ALERT
NACWA will be working with both WERF and WEF on these continuing efforts and will work to ensure that
any national press coverage of the issue is factual and includes the municipal perspective.
http://deadlydeceit.com/NACWA.html
EPA/ WEF PUBLIC RELATION CAMPAIGN -- 1994 to present.
http://deadlydeceit.com/WEF-PR.html
ONE SIDED EPA/WEF FACT SHEET ON RAYMOND AND LINDA ZANDER OF WASHINGTON STATE.
http://deadlydeceit.com/wef-fs.html
THE WORKERS' FAMILY PROTECTION ACT (29 U.S.C. 671A)
NO PROTECTION FOR FARMERS
http;//deadlydeceit.com/WFPA.html