Reduced operations at Cedar Grove

This past spring, Cedar Grove Composting, Inc. was inundated with yard trimmings when record amounts of grass were cut from lawns in the Puget Sound area and two other facilities that had been accepting the material shut down. Two unfortunate consequences of this situation were a dramatic increase in odor complaints from area residents and a fine from the Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Authority in July (see "`Shock Absorber' Role Brings Cedar Grove Major Fine," September, 1997).

In October, the Seattle-King County Department of Health told Cedar Grove that it must reduce the amount of yard trimmings it handles to 800 tons per day, averaged weekly, for the rest of this year, …