210 Sixth Street, Kettleman City.
Kettleman City, a tiny town in California’s Central Valley, is already beset by environmental problems: arsenic and other chemicals in the water, diesel pollution from an interstate highway, pesticides from surrounding farm fields, and a nearby toxic waste dump. These factors are suspected in a rash of birth defects that have beset the town since 2007. Now, Kettleman City can add another environmental woe: sewage sludge from Los Angeles. Up to 500,000 tons of biosolids a year — the waste from over 5.7 million people — will be trucked in for composting on a nearby farm.
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Tags: environment, Poverty, San Joaquin Valley
