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Pedee, Oregon | The Netherlands, and a whole lot of Europe, has high nitrate/nitrogen problems. Lots of population density, farm density, animal density… everybody poops. How many hundreds or thousands of years has everyone and everything had their wastes spread on relatively concentrated land areas. And, modern septic sanitation has only existed for a small fraction of that time. Sure, many cities just flushed it into the rivers since time immemorial, but those rivers deposit it on flood plains and agricultural land, compounding the problem over hundreds or thousands of years.
There’s constant land applications of bio solids or liquids in Europe. I follow a couple Dutch FB groups dedicated to it. They have to go 365 days a year. Some shoot it off paved roads over the fence into fields, some floater buggy’s they just drive from the sewage plant to the field, constantly.
This isn’t a climate problem, it’s a nutrient management problem. | |
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