Tons Of NYC Feces Are Causing A Real Stink In Alabama

NEW YORK, NY – Tons of New York City feces may have been rotting in Alabama for weeks and they're causing a real stink.

"I never dreamed someone could flush a commode in New York and it would run out in my backyard," Charles Nix, the the mayor of Yellowhammer state town West Jefferson, said at a public hearing, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Trainloads of NYC's human waste – along with tons from other states – have been trundling down to Big Sky Environmental, a private landfill in Adamsville, Ala., since 2016, according to the DEP.

But the arrivals at the landfill stopped in January, when the neighboring town of West Jefferson filed an injunction against Big Sky to keep the sludge from being stored there, according to PIX11. Since the injunction was successful, the waste moved to the town of Parrish because there are no zoning laws to prevent the storage.

Parrish Mayor Heather Hall said she is doing everything in her power to get the feces out of her town, according to the report. “You can’t sit out on your porch. Kids can’t go outside and play, and God help us if it gets hot and this material is still out here,” she told the media, including CNN.

Patch and CNN contacted Big Sky and they're waiting to receive comment. The Wall Street Journal reported about 200 stranded shipping containers originated in NYC.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management have both told Hall the material isn't dangerous and that it's Grade A biowaste, not raw sewage, according to CNN.

But Hall, speaking to CNN, wondered: "If you have asthma or COPD or breathing problems, what is that going to do to you? [The rail yard] is probably less than 50 yards away from homes. What happens if flies get into someone's house? Is that not a public health issue?"

According to AL.com, residents in Birmingham were livid when at least 80 train cars full of the sludge came to a stop in their city in January. Hall said, however, there were 252 tractor-trailer loads of the stuff stockpiled in her town.

"People need to understand that this waste does not need to be in a populated area," she told CNN. "There are places to put it, industrial places. We're a very small town caught in the middle of this, and I feel like that's part of the issue here. This shouldn't be happening."

Here are some of the complaints people have made:

Originally reported by Tom Davis/Patch

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