Federal Court Upholds Farmers’ Rights to Pursue Damages in Appomattox Biosolids Suit. Judge Denies County’s Motion to Overturn District Court Ruling.

A group of eleven local farmers, who sued Appomattox County, VA because of its anti-biosolids ordinances, won their motion in U.S. District Court on 8-2-02 to end the County's illegal ban.” If the farmers cannot use biosolids now as approved by the Virginia Department of Health, their land will suffer environmental and conservation damage and lose the long term benefits of this organic soil amendment . . . The current drought in Appomattox County heightens the need for the moisture retention ability of biosolids." On November 20, 2002 a Federal Court upheld the farmers’ rights to pursue damages in the Appomattox Biosolids Suit, with the Federal Judge denying the county’s motion to overturn the August 2nd District Court ruling.

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