33. Boyceland Dairy v. City of Augusta, No. 2001-RCCV-126, Richmond County Superior Court, Augusta, GA. Expert Report of Chip Pritchard, DVM. Feb. 3, 1999. Comments: Expert findings that cattle fed forage crops grown on sewage sludge had high to toxic levels of heavy metals in tissue samples. [Document 33]
34. Boyceland Dairy v. City of Augusta, No. 2001-RCCV-126, Richmond County Superior Court, Augusta, GA. Supplemental and Rebuttal Expert Report of Chip Pritchard, DVM. Aug. 12, 1999. Comments: Expert findings that cattle fed forage crops grown on sewage sludge had high to toxic levels of heavy metals in tissue samples. [Document 34]
35. Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Memorandum. Alan W. Hallum, Compliance Evaluation Task Force to Jeffry H. Larson, James A. Sommerville. Dec. 16, 1998. Comments: Audit of Augusta waste treatment plant found that data reported to the state were unreliable and probably manipulated to appear to comply with state and federal regulations. [Document 35]
36. Boyceland Dairy v. City of Augusta, No. 2001-RCCV-126, Richmond County Superior Court, Augusta, GA. Deposition of Alan Saxon, Jr., Plant Manager, James B. Messerly Wastewater Treatment Plant. July 23, 1999. Comments: Example where Augusta Wastewater Treatment Plant manager admitted under oath that chemical analyses of sewage sludge reported to the state of Georgia were low by four orders of magnitude. [Document 36]
37. Boyceland Dairy v. City of Augusta, No. 2001-RCCV-126, Richmond County Superior Court, Augusta, GA. Expert Report of NewFields Resources, Inc., Atlanta, GA. Comments: Expert findings that City of Augusta’s wastewater treatment plant frequently reported high levels of regulated pollutants in sewage sludge prior to 1993, when the 503 sludge rule was promulgated. Reported levels dropped below regulated limits after 503 was in effect, even though treatment methods remained unchanged, as did pollutant input (according to NPDS data). Plant manager admitted under oath that reported data were orders of magnitude too low (Document 36).
38. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Biosolids Management and Enforcement. Record of Communication. “Note of Phone Conversation With Bob Brobst, Region 8 Biosolids Coordinator.” May 11, 1999. Comments: EPA Biosolids Coordinator Robert Brobst discussed “biosolids horror stories” found across the country. He mentioned that he had a favorable working relationship with Augusta attorney defending the city against the McElmurray and Boyce cases involving cattle deaths. Brobst later funded the University of Georgia to publish a study, which he co-authored (Document 19), that included fraudulent analytical data (Documents 33-37). The article was used by EPA and the National Academy of Sciences to dismiss the cattle deaths as related to sewage sludge (Document 39, Document 1, p. 52). [Document 38]