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haha counties before it can seek solid waste permits from the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The company also wants to haul the material to fields in Hanson and McCook counties, which do not require conditional-use permits.
• Jim Wendte, an engineer with the DENR solid waste management program, said the state agency has about a decade's worth of experience dealing with products such as the one ELM wants to distribute.
• He said it's somewhat akin to treated sewage sludge, which has been spread on fields for decades.
• Wendte said he hadn't seen a report detailing John Morrell's wastewater byproduct, but he surmised that, "we would probably be dealing with something that is slightly less problematic than municipal sludges."
• Sludge from a municipal sewage plant can accumulate heavy metals, pharmaceuticals and pathogens, but the product from John Morrell is likely to contain only waste from processed hogs and some cleaning products, Wendte said.
• He said that based on DENR's experience with similar products, if they're properly worked into the soil they are unlikely to run off because of rainfall and are not likely to migrate down and contaminate groundwater.
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• The sentence comes in an Illinois court after the ex-cop angrily denies killing his third wife.
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