Editor,

In regards to the article “Landings water tests high in fecal coliform,”one thing you may not have known is that Island County dumps tanker load after tanker load of class B — which is the least regulated — biosolids, or another word for treated human waste and whatever gets flushed down the toilet or poured down the sink, on fields in Island County.

One particular field is at the end of Olson Road, also used to access the fields around it and over to the fields next to Zylstra Road.

One thing about class B biosolids that I don’t understand is that you can’t have public access to it for a year but publicly sold natural beef can graze on it 30 days after it is applied. This is happening in mid summer. They do allow for a 100-foot buffer for any wetland, but if it is a wetland it is a low point that runoff flows into.

Lori Thompson

Coupeville