What is the foul-smelling sludge being sprayed north of Birmingham?
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
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But it smells like death.
The odor of degrading food processing waste wafts through the car’s air conditioning vents driving along Mt. Olive Road and slaps you in the face when you open your car door near the old Knob No. 1 mine site, a surface coal mine that closed in 2010.
The reclaimed mine about 20 miles north of Birmingham is being sprayed this week with waste from an undisclosed food processing facility by an Arkansas-based company called Denali Water Solutions. There aren’t many neighbors near the rural site, surrounded by a handful of inactive coal mines, but the ones there are raising their own stink about the odors emanating from the site.
Jan 25, 2021
Russellville, Arkansas Denali Water Solutions, LLC, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the assets of Recyc Systems Southeast, LLC, a provider of transportation and land application services for industrial food processing residuals and municipal biosolids predominantly in Alabama and Georgia.
Recyc Systems has over 25 years of experience in biosolid production, tracking, transportation, disposal, and land application and a respected reputation in regulatory compliance. JGS Resources, a transaction advisory firm for the waste and freight logistics industries, acted as exclusive financial advisor to Recyc Systems Southeast on the transaction.
“We are thrilled to welcome the team at Recyc Systems to the Denali Water Solutions family. Our shared values of integrity, high-quality service for our customers, and respect for our employees are congruent with the culture and purpose we are proud to have cultivated here at Denali,” noted Andy McNeill, CEO of Denali W