To do: Go on vacation (check), Dig out of pile of paperwork (?), update blog. . . .
CAFO updates are plentiful. When I left the state everything seemed peaceful, but I guess my luck did not hold out:
First. Blackford County. The BZA will meet on Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Hartford City Middle School gym to consider Oolman’s Dairy’s second try at obtaining an exception to install a large dairy operation in the county. If you can get free, get up there and show your support.
Second. As the Pal-Item noted a couple of weeks ago, (article) the Henry County planning commission approved a pair of hog farms in a session that extended from Thursday night until early Friday morning, and was attended by more than 250 people:
After five hours of comment, the Henry County Planning Commission voted 6-2 to endorse the two farms, which were proposed by Gerry Yanos of Symons Creek Swine and Tim and Matt Chapman.
More than 250 people, many of them residents, turned out for the Thursday night meeting to express their fears that the farms would harm air and water quality, property values, quality of life and damage area roads as trucks delivered and picked up swine.
The farm Yanos proposed is supposed to be located just northwest of Dublin, Ind., and some residents there are concerned the operation could harm the town’s water supply.
Lloyd Davis, Dublin’s superintendent of utilities, said the town pulls water from the aquifer very near the proposed farm.
"I guess it’s close enough that we might get some of the smell," Davis said. "The town’s main concern, though, is our water."
Third. Kpaul notes that Madison County held a meeting Tuesday about the new proposed CAFO regulations. Kpaul has good coverage of some of the public comments here.
Is there more? Yes of course, like 4 Maxwell Foods hog CAFO’s being approved by IDEM in Randolph County, but my pile of paperwork demands attention. . . . .
