Large feedlot hit with $50,000 fine for manure pollution


Large feedlot hit with $50,000 fine for manure pollution


Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel’s Justice Department last month quietly agreed to a $50,000 fine for a large feedlot that polluted drinking water and streams in 2014 and 2015.

Stahl Brothers Dairy is in Kewaunee County, where more than 30 percent of tested drinking water wells have been found tainted by hazardous bacteria, most of it from the large dairy operations the state has permitted on one of the region’s most vulnerable aquifers.

The concentrated animal feeding operations house thousands of cows that produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of manure, which the operators spread on farm fields...

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https://www.epa.gov/agstar/guidelines-and-permitting-livestock-anaerobic-digesters

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Ken Notes: Now lets all blame each other. As for me, at 165 degrees we have no problems and a new product plus electricity...

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