http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2015/01/dairy-polluted-groundwater.html
Farming?
Posted on 01/17/2015 4:05:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court has ruled for the first time that manure from livestock facilities can be regulated as solid waste, a decision hailed by environmentalists as opening the door to potential legal challenges against facilities across the country.
A large dairy in Washington state, Cow Palace Dairy, polluted ground water by over applying manure to soil, ruled Judge Thomas Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington on Wednesday.
"The practices of this mega-dairy are no different than thousands of others across the country," said Jessica Culpepper, an attorney at Public Justice, one of the firms that represented the plaintiffs, a collection of public advocacy groups.
The case is scheduled to go to trial in March to decide the extent of the contamination and the clean-up.
This is the first time the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which governs the disposal of solid and hazardous waste, has been applied to animal waste from a farm.
Industrial livestock operations produce hundreds of millions of tons of manure annually.
The district court ruling, if upheld, could affect any large livestock facility that produces more manure than it can responsibly manage, including poultry, beef and hog farms, Culpepper said.
An attorney for Cow Palace said on Friday that it plans to ask for an appeal.
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UN Agenda 21 at work to eliminate the non-oligarchs.
Beeutifull!
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I’m so very sorry to offend.
Please give me a list comments that you will allow, and I will make sure that I pick from the list.
Until then, I will monitor the water from my well. I didn’t know that those of us who live in the country were fair game for industrial interests, or do you think an industrial cattle operation is Ma and Pa Kettle will a few happy cows?
Instead of taking care of this on an as-need basis, the environazis have managed to sneak it through a federal court which let this ruling apply nationwide. That's what's got my dander up.
And how to hold these bastards accountable? Maybe try playing their game back against them! Sue them! Hound them, make their lives miserable the way their followers do ours! Use their tactics against them, give them no peace. It may be undignified, but they sleep well at night, and until tactics change, they will be happy to live with this status quo. Remember the protest to get Gore out of the VP's residence? Something like that, but bigger...with specialized targets [so to speak]. /rant
Don’t worry, there won’t be any regulations on tofu.
http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2015/01/dairy-polluted-groundwater.html
Farming?
that’s 250 gals per cow per day.
Highly sceptical of those numbers
Once saw a dairy farm sludge (manure) pond that collapsed and poured into the Greenbrier River in WV. Not a pretty nor aromatic sight. The problem with the EPA though is eventually, if you dogs poop in your back yard, you will be fined.
I get 25 gallon/cow/day. That is liquified manure. I don’t know what the ratio would be...it would take a lot of added water to make the manure from my 3 horses liquid.
” A mature dairy cow weighing 1,400 pounds can generate around 14 gallons (about 120 pounds or 1.9 cubic feet) of feces and urine each day with an average as-excreted solids content of around 12 percent.”
http://www.extension.org/pages/15476/liquid-manure-storage-ponds-pits-and-tanks#.VLsKtB1ozgE
So less than a 50:50 water addition would get you to the figure cited.
The actual waste from one cow is more like a large scoop shovel of semi-solid and several gallons of urine per day. Much water is added for handling via pumps.
OMG. Where do you think food comes from?
That sounds more like it. Musta got an extra zero on my calculator
They mean to shut down all growing of foods except Monsanto Frankenfoods - which are patented - (Monsanto: hitched t the hip with DC)
“He who controls the food, controls the people.” (Age old mantra of Despots.)
SAve up your non-hybrid seeds - and dessicated manure.
They are shutting down small farms and back yard/front yard gardens, making it a crime to collect rainwater off your roof -
Prepare and provide...fill your lamps and trim your wicks - long dark nights could be coming.
“It reads like the dairy was dumping waste on the fields.”
Well, manure. A well-known fertilizer.
The farm is acting within the rules of the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act which are the laws that were written to apply.
This judge is ruling that they are subject to laws developed to apply to landfills.
“If you were take a crap in an open field the DEC could hall your butt to jail for contamination.”
I have a friend that was ticketed by NYSDEC for peeing in the woods during deer season a few years back.
ahahah - 2,000 would be hard put to fit shoulder to shoulder on 5 acres, and would starve right quick - need a better example?
Depends where you are.
In the east, about right - in the west, gonna need a LOT MORE per animal
Went to a high tech diary a few times with my sons’ Boy Scout troup.
The place was amazing. I had spent many summers working on my Uncle’s diary growing up and to see their operation was fascinating to me.
The pains they went thru to prevent “nutrient-rich runoff” (manure) was extraordinary.
I wonder how many people realize where municipal sewage solids ends up.
Merrell Brothers are now gazillionaires hauling, drying and applying the solids to farmland from wastewater treatment plants in multiple states. At least these guys do a good job of keeping it controlled.
And since most treatment plants are located in very close proximity to large creeks and streams, what happens when we have floods?
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