Category: BRASH, WHAT’S IN IT?

Discovering Brunswick Ash or “BRASH” and the unraveling of State of GA Dept. of Agriculture Consumer Ag Inputs Licensure without thorough testing before approval for Soil Amendments in the massive distribution of papermill re-injection fly ash sludge wastes into agricultural lands in South East Georgia and North East FL by Wittmer Agricycle Inc. and GP Brunswick Cellulose papermill, Brunswick, GA.

Boron, mercury, zinc, cadmium, chromium, lead….. a teaspoon a day will keep the doctor away…..

If it’s so good for us and the lands, why haven’t the Koch Bros made a tea for themselves? An ounce of prevention is worth a thousand pounds of cure. As David Koch has called himself a “crusader” against cancer, isn’t it time Mr. Koch allow us all the opportunity to reduce our chances of getting cancer from the sludge ash being manufactured at Georgia Pacific and dumped on agriculture lands in North Florida and South East Georgia? The dumping isn’t sustainable and never has been. This is nothing new, just more of the same. Greed dictating what to do with the bi-products of industrialized raw resources. The answer is not to dump carcinogens on agriculture lands, producers of food and crops which contain these harmful elements are devastating to people with compromised immune systems, the very young and the elderly.

https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/palm-beach-community-honors-david-koch-and-maria-floyd.h00-158905389.html

WE BESEECH THE KOCH BROTHERS WHO UNDOUBTEDLY HAD NO IDEA OF THE CARCINOGENS IN THEIR BYPRODUCT CHANGE COURSE OF ACTION AND MANDATE THESE MATERIALS GO TO A LANDFILL.

RELUCTANT. DON’T BE FOOLED BY PEOPLE WHO PRETEND TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, ASK QUESTIONS, FIND ANSWERS. (Don’t expect anyone to actually help you. But be grateful when they do.)

STATE OF GA, TOM MCCALL DURING GA WATER COALITION LEGISLATIVE DAY, STATE CAPITAL. Tom McCall. R – Elberton. District 33. Title: Chairman, Agriculture & Consumer Affairs. Capitol Address; 228-B State Capitol; Atlanta, GA 30334; 404.656.5099 –
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JUBILANT, GO TO THE STATE HOUSE. TELL THEM WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND. IT’S YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN. PROTECT GA WATER AND LAND. IT’S WHERE WE LIVE, IT’S WHO WE ARE, GUARDIANS.

Sifted TopSoil

Buyer beware, “sifted topsoil” is just another name for “pine bark ash & lime.” This material as a “soil amendment” belongs in a landfill. It contains boron, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and high levels of zinc 20x’s greater than the background soils, making the land so acidic it is poorly adapted for silviculture or row crops.

EXPECTATIONS.

MY ADVICE, TALK TO YOUR FORESTER, ASK IF PINE TREES SUCH AS OUR NORMAL SPECIES; SLASH, LOBLOLLY OR LONG LEAF WILL GROW ON LANDS STREWN WITH PINE BARK ASH WASTE SLUDGE. CALL YOUR COMMERCIAL FARMER, THE ONES FARMING HUNDREDS OF ACRES AND ARE LOCAL, KNOW THE FARMS AND KNOW THE AG-LANDS. THEY KNOW THE SOIL PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS TOO. COMMERCIAL FARMERS I’VE SPOKEN WITH WILL NOT LEASE LANDS STREWN WITH THIS WASTE, BECAUSE OF POOR PRODUCTIVITY.

BOTTOM LINE, IT’S UP TO YOU. THE COUNTY AGENT IN PIERCE COUNTY COULD GIVE ME ABSOLUTELY NO TEST RESULTS FOR ANALYSIS ON THE PRODUCT, NEITHER COULD WITTMER AGRI-CYCLE INC., EMBEDDED AT GP BRUNSWICK CELLULOSE, NOR WAS THE CONTRACT CONSUMER TRUCKER, JOEY DENISON ABLE TO PROVIDE ANY VALID CURRENT LICENSED TEST. RED FLAGS.

DO NOT EXPECT GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TO GUIDE YOU. THEY ARE PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU. THEY HAVE JOBS, FAMILIES, ETC. THIS IS THEIR LIVELIHOOD, DOING WHAT THEY MUST, NOT MAKING WAVES, KEEPING THEIR JOBS. DO YOUR HOMEWORK. BE RESPONSIBLE. DON’T BLAME ANYONE ELSE FOR YOUR SHORTCOMINGS AND REMEMBER IF IT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, “TOPSOIL,” IT USUALLY ISN’T WHAT YOU THINK IT IS.

IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAS BEEN ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY THIS PRODUCT, CALL GA DEPT. OF AG, CONSUMER INPUTS AND COMPLAIN. ASK WHY PROPER TESTING HASN’T BEEN PERFORMED BY THEIR OFFICE. ASK WHY THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO BECOME A SOIL AMENDMENT WHEN IT CLEARLY SHOULD GO TO A LANDFILL.

Check the back of consumer “potting soil” at your local garden or landscape design, or the chain Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Sam’s Club, anywhere you might buy “potting soil.” Chances are, unless you are purchasing organic potting soil and the designates on the label show what % you are buying, you could be purchasing pine bark & an aggregate of pine bark, ash & lime.

…CERTIFICATION MARK DOES NOT APPLY TO PESTICIDE CLAIMS, OR HEAVY METALS………..

Take Away. Not in my backyard. Informed consent. Read the Labs, make up your own mind.

READ THE LAB REPORTS AND BEFORE YOU SIGN THE LIABILITY WAIVER, MAKE YOUR OWN INFORMED CONSENT. BE AWARE, THERE IS FAR MORE THAN CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM IN GP BRUNSWICK CELLULOSE ASH.

UGA County Extension gives these warnings:

During application of wood ash to the soil, take special
care to prevent the ash from entering any surface or ground
water. A distance of at least 50 feet should separate the wood
ash from any farm ditches, wells, or other bodies of water.
This distance should be increased to 100 feet in highly erodible areas or areas without riparian stream side vegetation or from entering or leaving the storage area. Store it away from
wells, surface water and animal watering areas, and cover or
shield it as much as possible to protect it from dry or windy
weather.
One of the major obstacles to land application of wood
ash is the undesirable handling and spreading characteristics
of ash. Most ash has a low density and small particle size.
This can create dust problems during transport and application. Always cover wood ash during transport to prevent
losses en-route to the application site. Studies indicate that
the handling characteristics of ash generally improve with
increasing relative humidity so avoid spreading on extremely dry days. Moisture can be added to improve the handling characteristics of ash; however, if too much moisture
is added the ash will cake and become difficult to spread
uniformly.

Keep in mind, when Georgia Dept. of Agriculture tested the material their standard test only scores for calcium, magnesium & moisture content. Hardly comprehensive at best and woefully lacking and very misleading. No license should ever have been issued without consideration of toxicology reports. Department of Ag Consumer Inputs office said their lab was very limited, which was why I sent a GA Dept. of Ag drawn sample to UGA Labs by way of the Glynn County Extension Office. This material belongs in a land fill, where 90% of it was destined until just a few years ago.

SATILLA and ALTAMAHA RIVERKEEPERS’ CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY SAMPLES @Chancey RD.

LAURA EARLY AND JEN HILBURN respectively, dedicated local Riverkeepers stepped into deep, dark do-do on Chancey Road, taking unknown ash samples for shipment and analysis to Pace Analytical, PaceLabs.com.

Satilla Riverkeeper Laura Early takes a sample for toxicity analysis from BR-ash dump on Scenic Drive Feb. 5, 2019.

Jen Hilburn boots up and digs “holedigger-deep,” to get ash sample while un-contained leachate runs in the background from Spring rains.