NATION IN BRIEF : THE SOUTH : Baltimore to Take Trainload of Sewage

Baltimore officials have agreed to take back a trainload of sewage sludge after authorities in Louisiana and Mississippi refused to let a disposal company unload the waste in their states. The first of 63 carloads of the nonhazardous waste will begin arriving in about nine days at the Back River waste treatment plant that produced the sludge, city officials said. The 5,000 tons of sludge will be treated with lime and then transferred to a facility that will mix the waste with leaves and sell it as compost, George Balog, the city’s public works director said.