The train, stuck in a rail yard next to a softball field, has forced people to stay indoors; little league games have been rescheduled as a result. AP reports that because New York has no room for its biowaste, and cannot dump it into the Atlantic Ocean because of federal law, it has transported its excrement to Alabama since 2017. Alabama’s zoning laws are not as restrictive as New York’s. Thus the train was bound for the Big Sky Environmental landfill, roughly 20 miles east of Parrish.
But then, a problem. The nearby town of West Jefferson, which was supposed to receive the excrement, and where trucks were supposed to transport the waste to the landfill, filed an injunction against the landfill in January to prevent the biowaste from being stored in the town’s rail yard, which terminated shipments from coming to the town.
That meant shipments following the injunction wound up in Parrish. The town is chary of filing suit, because a lawsuit could stall the issue for a long period of time.
You know it's not Fake News, as CNN reported that Parrish, which is only two square miles, now must host 10 million pounds of poop.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/poop-train-from-new-york-stuck-in-parrish-alabama.htmlhttps://apnews.com/28f5b0563b1441b6ac5d29f7dfd7f5f7