Dr. Sally Brown
Biosolids and
public acceptance
For many years I have worked to help establish the safety and environmental benefit of reusing biosolids in soils. Earlier work has shown low risk to soil or human health from metals and other constituents in biosolids. New areas of interest include organic microconstituents and estrogen-like compounds, reclaimed water reuse, and odor control. Recent work I have participated in includes...
- Community garden lunch : A luncheon was held at Seattle's South Treatment Plant featuring food grown using Seattle's own biosolids compost product GroCo.
- Marketing biosolids products: Examples of some advertising approaches we have recently tried to better market biosolids soil amendments for the retail home gardener.
- Biosolids Basics: papers on a variety of general interest topics about biosolids and land application.
- Biosolids Recycling in King County, information on current biosolids recycling program in King County (external link).
- Fate of 4-Nonylphenol in biosolids: Greenhouse study of estrogen-like compounds in biosolids. Paper also published in Chemosphere (2009).
- Microconstituents in biosolids: overview by Dr. George O'Connor, Dept. of Soil and Water Science, University of Florida.
- Reclaimed water reuse, studies by my students and I on the saftey of reclaimed water recycling.
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