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Page 1 of 1 <br /> Tom F. Fudala <br /> From: tomfudala@comcast.net <br /> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:56 PM <br /> To: Tom F. Fudala <br /> Subject: Fwd: Fertilizer impact on Nitrogen Polution <br /> ----- Forwarded Message ----- <br /> From: AAREDEYE@aol.com <br /> To: "edw baker" <edw.baker@comcast.net> <br /> Cc: amosl10@msn.com, town planner@ci.mash pee.ma.us, jjmsc@comcast.net, <br /> burt@burtkaplan.net, klenertl @comcast.net, capecodjcliff@aol.com, <br /> ralphmarilyn@verizon.net, tomfudala@comcast.net <br /> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:46:53 PM <br /> Subject: Fertilizer impact on Nitrogen Polution <br /> Ed: <br /> I have been doing some work estimating just how much Nitrogen must be removed from <br /> waste water to make a significant difference in cleaning up our water resources. <br /> Lo and behold I have discovered that the simple application of lawn and <br /> garden fertilizer by 10,000 households has a significant impact on any program going <br /> forward. <br /> If each household (10,000) used one 100# bag of fertilizer containing up to 20% <br /> Nitrogen and 20% Phosphates it would look like this: <br /> 10,000 (100#) ( 20%) = 200,000# annually of Nitrogen and 200,000# <br /> of Phosphates !!! <br /> Keep in mind that even a conservative estimate of 30#of fertilizer per household per <br /> year would yield: <br /> 10,000 (30#) (20%) = 60,000# annually of Nitrogen and 60,000# of Phosphates !!!! <br /> Presently the waste water from 10,000 households contains an estimated 275,000#of <br /> Nitrogen compounds. Estimating the average household use at 30#of fertilizer per year. <br /> containing 20% Nitrogen would mean that 18% of the Nitrogen pollution in our <br /> watersheds could be traced back to fertilizer use. <br /> Question #1) <br /> Why hasn't the sale and use of lawn fertilizers and phosphate loaded cleaning products <br /> been banned in our sensitive watersheds? <br /> Question#2)___ <br /> How many households in the Santuit Pond watershed fertilize lawns/gardens and use <br /> Phosphate loaded cleaning agents? <br /> Joe Lyons <br /> 3/21/2011 <br />