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<text id=89TT3043>
<title>
Nov. 20, 1989: American Notes:Mississippi
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 69
American Notes
MISSISSIPPI
Poo-Poo Choo-Choo
</hdr><body>
<p> It is a replay of the famous 1987 saga of the garbage scow
that couldn't find a home -- only worse. This time the carrier
is a 61-car train. On board: 5,000 tons of sewage sludge, most
of it treated human waste. It is nothing to sniff at. In fact,
nobody wants it.
</p>
<p> The sludge, courtesy of the citizens of Baltimore, set out
on its vagabondage from Maryland nine weeks ago, and has been
plying the rails ever since. After Louisiana declined the
tribute, the so-called Poo-Poo Choo-choo chugged into a rail
yard near Pascagoula, Miss. But Mississippi's department of
environmental quality threatened a fine of $2 million a day, so
the train operator gave up, and at week's end was preparing to
follow the scent back to Maryland.
</p>
</body></article>
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