Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy
could throw a challenge flag that would land in Brown County court, at the DNR headquarters in Madison and beyond.
Read on.
Long-time Wisconsin clean water advocates in Kewaunee County who have been battling the rapid expansion of industrial-scale manure-producing feedlot operations known as CAFOs
a) have won a rare victory for clean drinking water, I noted earlier today and b) may find new support in neighboring Brown County where a CAFO's plan to store millions of gallons of manure threatens an upscale exurban housing development with some high-profile, media-savvy and well-heeled allies:
could throw a challenge flag that would land in Brown County court, at the DNR headquarters in Madison and beyond.
Read on.
Long-time Wisconsin clean water advocates in Kewaunee County who have been battling the rapid expansion of industrial-scale manure-producing feedlot operations known as CAFOs
a) have won a rare victory for clean drinking water, I noted earlier today and b) may find new support in neighboring Brown County where a CAFO's plan to store millions of gallons of manure threatens an upscale exurban housing development with some high-profile, media-savvy and well-heeled allies:
Residents of a development off Lime Kiln Road are scrambling to find ways to keep a nearby dairy farm from building a manure-storage facility near their neighborhood of custom homes valued from $440,000 to more than $600,000.
Neighbors fear the farm could be allowed to store millions of gallons of manure and leachate at the site. Those concerns have galvanized a group that includes doctors, lawyers and the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. Some barely knew each other mere months ago...
Among other things, the farm's neighbors worry about water quality. Manure from farm runoff has contaminated certain wells in parts of Kewaunee County.
