Why desperate ranchers say their land has been turned into 'the new CHERNOBYL' after it left cattle, horses and fish all dying horrific deaths
The farmers from Johnson County are suing Synagro, a fertilizer company that uses treated human waste in its products, for the contamination on their land.
Rancher Tony Coleman is one of the farmers behind the lawsuit, which claims that runoff from the fertilizer has made the farmland useless. 'We are nervous, and we are scared,' he told WFAA.
Coleman said his neighbor used the Synagro product to fertilize his land, and what came after was a disaster.
He lost 10 cows, two houses and five whole ponds of fish after his land was reportedly contaminated.
Constable Detective Dana Ames - who traveled to the ranch to investigate the problem.
Ames said she learned later that what she had found in the area were piles of fertilizer made from biosolids - which come from human waste and are full of PFAS, which are known as 'forever chemicals' by scientists.
'It's chemicals that are man made,' Ames said. 'It's in the sewage sludge. It's in the biosolids.'
Ames partnered with scientists and experts to try to find out how the toxic man-made chemicals ended up on a ranch in rural Texas.
They eventually discovered that the chemicals were coming from Synagro - which uses 'sewage sludge' to make its' products.
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