SLUDGE VICTIMS

[15] Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health's attorney Grace R. Schuyler (Senior Counsel) June 19, 2000 letter to Brenda (Behun) Robertson. Refusing to release information to her and stating the Department of Health had very limited involvement in the investigation on Tony's death.

[16] Dr. David Lewis's May 15, 2000 letter to Brenda (Behun) Robertson. Hospital lab reports identified Staphylococcus aureus as the cause of the infection. This is one of the pathogens listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as posing a public health threat from biosolids.

[17] Dr. Lewis's email message to Dr. Joel Hersh of the Pennsylvania Department of Health. An otherwise healthy 11-year-old boy rides his motorbike across a mining area ankle deep in sewage sludge." "Within hours he develops lesions on an arm and a leg, runs a high fever within two days, and is dead in eight days from Staph aureus septicemia.

[18] Video from PCN Call-IN (Pennsylvania Cable Network) June 1, 2000 sludge debate between David Hess, Secretary of PA DEP and PA Rep. Bud George. David Hess argued Staphylococcus aureus is not known to be found in Biosolids.

[19] U.S. EPA Pathogen Risk Assessment Methodology for Municipal Sewage Sludge Landfilling and Surface Disposal (EPA/600/R-95/016 August 995). Identifying Staphylococcus aureus as a known pathogen to found in sludge (biosolids).

[20] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette June 11, 2000 article. The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. EPA corroborate that Staphylococcus aureus can be found in sludge (biosolids).