CAFO Call Out to Wells County
Effective March 3, the IDEM has opened a technical comment period on the draft individual permit and application by New Holland Dairy, LLC, which was submitted for state review Sept. 26, 2005.
New Holland Dairy’s application was for construction and operation of a dairy operation which would be located near the intersection of County Road 400 South and Meridian Road, approximately three miles southwest of Bluffton in Liberty Twp.
Link (Fort Wayne News Banner).
IDEM was nice enough to point out that this is a NPDES permitting process, so they aren’t concerned with many issues that may trouble the dairy’s neighbors:
Pointed out by the IDEM notice was that citizens should be reminded that some issues (odor, potential devalued property, and traffic concerns) are not within IDEM’s jurisdiction. Noted by the IDEM are that these concerns are local zoning issues.
The article notes that Well County Commissioners will have the final say on the proposed dairy, and also notes that Wells County has another Dairy on the way that has already cleared the regulatory process:
Four Leaf Clover Dairy, based out of Wauseon, Ohio, was issued a permit on Feb. 6, 2006, to build two dairy barns at 7630 East, 1100 South in Nottingham Twp, which is in a remote rural area three miles southeast of Petroleum.
The Four-Leaf Clover Dairy operation originally filed an application with IDEM on April 5, 2005, for a facility consisting of three freestall barns confining a total of 2,200 cows.
The article also has a nice little summary of exactly what IDEM regulations require for the operation of a CAFO:
IDEM requirements include:
—Each freestall barn will have concrete floors and scraped to direct manure to a liquid collection and storage system.
—The manure and process wastewater will be directed first to a concrete sand settling basin and secondly to a wastewater storage lagoon.
—The settling basin will be a two-compartment reinforced concrete structure and the storage lagoon will have a compacted clay liner.
—All milking parlor wastewaters will be directed to the manure/process wastewater storage system.
—The raw materials and feed storage area is designed to collect silage leachate and the storm water up to the 25-year, 24-hour rain event.
—All manure and process wastewaters will be land applied by the permittee, or distributed to other persons for land application or converting to compost.
—The milk chilling process utilizes groundwater and a non-contact cooling device.
—The non-contact water will be collected for recycling as drinking water or to mist the cows for cooling purposes.
—Excess non-contact cooling water will be conveyed to an existing field drainage tile.
March 11th, 2006 13:35
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[...] New Holland’s 1,775 cow mega-dairy continues on without much notice. I talked about this proposal before (CAFO Call Out to Wells County), and now the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette notes that the IDEM public comment period is about to run, and urges folks to pay attention: Mega-farms can play a role in economic development, especially in Indiana’s rural areas. But county leaders and environmental regulators need to pay close attention to where they allow mega-farms to locate. And residents need to hold those officials accountable for the responsible expansion of the agricultural industry.Link. Over in Randolph County, plans are moving forward with a pig CAFO (about 2,400 sows) to be located on old highway 36, just East of Lynn, Indiana. In fact, the reported location would bring it within about 2 miles of town, and the town’s water supply. The operation has it’s permit from IDEM (permit #6384, animal waste number 5523), under the name of Donald Leis (Idem’s permits pending site), and neighbors are reporting that a road has been cut and trees felled in preparation for construction. Broadening the CAFO focus beyond Indiana for a second, check out a Recipe for Disposal, a page devoted to the proper composting of dead animals, another constant byproduct of a CAFO. The page references a survey of Pennsylvania dairymen, 40% of whom report disposing of dead animals in a “secret pile.” The site advocates for composting the departed animals. Environmental trend setter California has undertaken an intensive review of the impact CAFO’s pose to the local and state environment, and you can read up on some of the results of this broad study over here (the Confined Animal Facilities section start about a quarter down the page. [...]
December 14th, 2006 17:32
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