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Incinerator plan extinguished

Published 02/08/07

Fort George G. Meade has decided not to build a controversial sludge incinerator that had west county residents and county officials pinching their noses and holding their breath.

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A "biomass conversion center," a facility that would have burned between 110 and 115 tons of sludge a month, will not be built, relieving the health, environmental and olfactory concerns of state and county legislators and homeowners who live near the proposed project.

The project's demise was announced last night at a Maryland Department of the Environment meeting that originally was slated as a chance for the public to voice concerns or approval...

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