All of these proposals could be less expensive than building the pelletization plants, they added.

There are at least six pelletization plants similar to the ones proposed for Nassau County.

In animal feed, it enriches fat and protein and improves pelletization.

The slurry is further dried in a hot air bed, and the resulting powder sieved before storage or pelletization.

Alternatively, in the pelletization process the liquid slag is partially cooled with water and subsequently projected into the air by a rotating drum.

The plan calls for the building of a sludge-dewatering plant, which separates the sludge into recyclable liquids and a cakelike substance, and a pelletization center.

The conventional route for making steel consists of sintering or pelletization plants, coke ovens, blast furnaces, and basic oxygen furnaces.

"Pelletization is too unknown and too industrial," said Trisha Kearney, president of the Bay Park Civic Association.

Mr. Gulotta said today that the county had considered five proposals for shipping the waste off Long Island as a long-term measure, and that three of them are less costly than building the pelletization plants.

Along with his role in the closing of Shoreham, he said he had lowered water rates, stopped the construction of sewage pelletization plants and improved the service of the Long Island Rail Road.

The move to ship the sludge off Long Island comes after two years in which the county developed plans to build two pelletization plants, which would convert the sludge into fertilizer pellets that could then be sold.

At a Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday, he characterized the decision to pursue pelletization as one that "could imperil the health of the entire county" and described the plants as too dangerous to be built anywhere.

Nassau County has defied a Federal court-ordered agreement to begin building a dewatering plant in Bay Park and is trying to plan for the dewatering and pelletization plant, which would not be finished until 1993.

New York Organic Fertilizer, the contractor constructing a fertilizer pelletization plant in the Bronx, is composting sludge in Arizona, according to the original terms of its contract with New York City.

Another called for construction of a pelletization plant that won't be built for two years; in the interim, the contract calls for transport of sludge to a composting facility in Arizona that has turned out to be nonoperational.

Although the state and leading environmental groups like the Environmental Defense Fund have said they see no health risks in pelletization, residents have voiced fears and promised to hold public officials accountable in next year's elections if the plants are built.

A Say in the Planning The Mayor of East Rockaway, Irving Shore, said he is inured to the dewatering and pelletization plant and will support it if the community gets a say in planning and monitoring it.

"Romaine lettuce is the hottest thing, because everyone is eating Caesar salad now," Mr. Oakes observed from behind the wheel before beginning a discourse on seed pelletization, an industrial process that coats seeds to make them more uniform and easier to plant by machine.

The Fines Would Continue Nassau had asked a Federal judge to allow it to ship its sludge to New Jersey while building a combined sludge dewatering plant, which dries out the muddy residue of treated sewage, and pelletization plant, which further reduces the residue into dry pellets.

A self-styled gadfly in the mode of a Ralph Nader, Mr. Kessel campaigns as a consumer advocate who says he lowered water rates, improved the service of Long Island Railroad and helped in successful fights against proposed sewage pelletization plants and in the closing of a landfill.

All of these proposals could be less expensive than building the pelletization plants, they added.

There are at least six pelletization plants similar to the ones proposed for Nassau County.

In animal feed, it enriches fat and protein and improves pelletization.

The slurry is further dried in a hot air bed, and the resulting powder sieved before storage or pelletization.

Alternatively, in the pelletization process the liquid slag is partially cooled with water and subsequently projected into the air by a rotating drum.

The plan calls for the building of a sludge-dewatering plant, which separates the sludge into recyclable liquids and a cakelike substance, and a pelletization center.

The conventional route for making steel consists of sintering or pelletization plants, coke ovens, blast furnaces, and basic oxygen furnaces.

"Pelletization is too unknown and too industrial," said Trisha Kearney, president of the Bay Park Civic Association.

Mr. Gulotta said today that the county had considered five proposals for shipping the waste off Long Island as a long-term measure, and that three of them are less costly than building the pelletization plants.

Along with his role in the closing of Shoreham, he said he had lowered water rates, stopped the construction of sewage pelletization plants and improved the service of the Long Island Rail Road.

The move to ship the sludge off Long Island comes after two years in which the county developed plans to build two pelletization plants, which would convert the sludge into fertilizer pellets that could then be sold.

At a Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday, he characterized the decision to pursue pelletization as one that "could imperil the health of the entire county" and described the plants as too dangerous to be built anywhere.

Nassau County has defied a Federal court-ordered agreement to begin building a dewatering plant in Bay Park and is trying to plan for the dewatering and pelletization plant, which would not be finished until 1993.

New York Organic Fertilizer, the contractor constructing a fertilizer pelletization plant in the Bronx, is composting sludge in Arizona, according to the original terms of its contract with New York City.

Another called for construction of a pelletization plant that won't be built for two years; in the interim, the contract calls for transport of sludge to a composting facility in Arizona that has turned out to be nonoperational.

Although the state and leading environmental groups like the Environmental Defense Fund have said they see no health risks in pelletization, residents have voiced fears and promised to hold public officials accountable in next year's elections if the plants are built.

A Say in the Planning The Mayor of East Rockaway, Irving Shore, said he is inured to the dewatering and pelletization plant and will support it if the community gets a say in planning and monitoring it.

"Romaine lettuce is the hottest thing, because everyone is eating Caesar salad now," Mr. Oakes observed from behind the wheel before beginning a discourse on seed pelletization, an industrial process that coats seeds to make them more uniform and easier to plant by machine.

The Fines Would Continue Nassau had asked a Federal judge to allow it to ship its sludge to New Jersey while building a combined sludge dewatering plant, which dries out the muddy residue of treated sewage, and pelletization plant, which further reduces the residue into dry pellets.

A self-styled gadfly in the mode of a Ralph Nader, Mr. Kessel campaigns as a consumer advocate who says he lowered water rates, improved the service of Long Island Railroad and helped in successful fights against proposed sewage pelletization plants and in the closing of a landfill.