Another brown water event. Yes, in Brown County:
The DNR offers some CAFO information through this webpages, though I would note that both of these outside agency links' are dead - -
When it comes to the CAFO/pollution/policy matter, I have argued that there are direct connections among several factors which Evers and Cole and others will have to untangle, re-priotitize and repair, including:
The Walker administration's coordinated Big Dairy-friendly enabling of CAFO expansions through fast-tracked permitting, shrugged-off inspections (like 94% of the time) and other favors; greater manure runoff and airborne contamination, including the so-called 'brown water' in rural kitchen taps; and the accelerating smaller Wisconsin dairying death spiral noted on this blog and national media.
Some Wisconsin groundwater's bears a distasteful similarity to Flint, Michigan's - - just a different contaminate and source, reported The New York Times.
This is what an earlier 'manure runoff event' looked like in Kewaunee County.
DNR confirms manure spill in Brown County
GREEN BAY - Department of Natural Resources staff and the owner of New Horizon Dairy, De Pere, are working to contain a manure runoff event near Wrightstown off Fair Road west of State 57.
The dairy's owner is working to control and contain manure contaminated water from running off the field. The runoff has entered an unnamed stream along the east and south sides of the field and into a ditch on the north side of the field.
The farmer notified the DNR of the spill and is working with the agency to implement control measures. DNR staff is still determining the downstream impact of the spill.
An estimate of the volume of runoff is not yet available, but it is estimated about 60,000 gallons of manure-contaminated water has been collected by vacuum trucks. DNR will continue to work with the dairy owner to contain the spill. Additional information will be provided as the situation develops.
----------------------------------According to DNR records, New Horizon Dairy planned to reach the '1,000 animal unit' CAFO threshold some years ago.
The DNR offers some CAFO information through this webpages, though I would note that both of these outside agency links' are dead - -
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency CAFO and NPDES information- - while this link - -
U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
- - takes you to a map based on January 17, 2017 data and is credited to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resiurces[Sic], and noted here a month ago without being fixed, and which I point to as proof that incoming DNR-Secretary Preston Cole's huge rebuilding task at the agency includes a vital return to science, and other basics.
- Map of WPDES permitted CAFOs [PDF] – the points on the map are an approximation of the operation’s main farm location. Satellite operations covered under the permit are not included.
When it comes to the CAFO/pollution/policy matter, I have argued that there are direct connections among several factors which Evers and Cole and others will have to untangle, re-priotitize and repair, including:
The Walker administration's coordinated Big Dairy-friendly enabling of CAFO expansions through fast-tracked permitting, shrugged-off inspections (like 94% of the time) and other favors; greater manure runoff and airborne contamination, including the so-called 'brown water' in rural kitchen taps; and the accelerating smaller Wisconsin dairying death spiral noted on this blog and national media.
Some Wisconsin groundwater's bears a distasteful similarity to Flint, Michigan's - - just a different contaminate and source, reported The New York Times.
This is what an earlier 'manure runoff event' looked like in Kewaunee County.
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