[USCC] fate of California Maturity Index?

[Wayne Thompson]

Will,

I understand the problem and agree with you.  Given the success and popularity of the internet, i.e., online documents are readily accessible from anywhere in the world, it seems appropriate that the USCC might consider posting a number of popular and/or progressive TMECC field methods and end-use interpretation tools (as pdf files) on their web site.

- Wayne Thompson

>>> Will Brinton <wfbr17 at woodsend.org> 3/19/2008 4:43 PM >>>
Wayne,

Thanks. As a member of the original committee and principal architect of 
the maturity index test scheme, I am fully aware of these facts. We are 
more interested that the funder CIWMB appears to have removed it from 
its website, so the the document is longer longer publicly available.  
You'll note that  CIWMB web pages refer to it as a CCQC document (but 
CCQC  no longer exists and the web address is up for sale). Therefore 
these are all dead ends. I hardly think attendees at the recent EU 
Congress, and Eurasians now interested in the scheme,  should have to 
spend $200 to obtain the Draft CD of TMECC in order to access a 
previously public document. For this reason, if we can't find a public 
source, we will post it free to our webstore together with our own 
update to the numerical ranking scheme of two or more variables.

William F Brinton jr President
Woods End Laboratories, Inc. 

Wayne Thompson wrote:

>Will,
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>The California Compost Maturity Index was incorporated into TMECC back in 2001 - before Marc completed his survey.  Refer to TMECC Chapter 05.02-G CCQC Maturity Index, page 05.02-13.  Matt Cotton served as principal reviewer and others on the committee served as critics and/or contributors.
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>- Wayne Thompson
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>>>>Will Brinton <wfbr17 at woodsend.org> 3/17/2008 10:44 AM >>>
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>Does anyone know the fate  of the "California Compost Maturity Index", a project funded by CIWMB and directed by  Marc Buchanan, in the time 2002-3, with a committee of soil and compost  test experts participating?
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>The Index was up on the CIWMB website for years and I see it has been removed, but why?
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>At the recent European Compost Quality conference (CODIS-2008) it was remarked that the CA Maturity Index seemed to be a very promising approach in understanding compost aging, instead of just relying on single tests (with each country having their own favorite and not being particularly open to admitting  others that work)! I had to admit that Americans didn't seem to be paying any attention to it!