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Randall Minchew with the Winchester office of the Hazel and Thomas law firm.
The county has 21 days to respond to the suit.
The suit claims that the amendment was adopted to continue a “wholly invalid moratorium on the land application of sludge.” It claims that at the public hearings on the amendment “no credible evidence was presented ...that the use of sludge for agricultural purposes was harmful to the public health, safety, or welfare,” while ‘“substantial evidence was presented...demonstrating the enormous benefits of land application of sludge for agricultural purposes.”
According to the suit Mr. Welch owns approximately 750 acres of land in the county, Mr. Powers owns approximately 180 acres, Mrs. Saltonstall owns more than 400 acres in an Agricultural and Forestal District, and Dr. Krebser owns more than 700 acres in an Agricultural and Forestal District. In the suit they “affirmatively assert that they would use sludge as fertilizer on those preperties but for the adoption
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