Winchester CAFO Faces Permit Revocation

Well, maybe not. The title of this post is the headline of the Pal Item article out today, reporting that IDEM Commissioner Thomas Easterly warns that the Union Go and De Groot CAFO’s face a “crackdown” over last week’s manure spills.

It makes for a good sound bite, and even makes it appear that IDEM is getting tough on sloppy CAFO’s. I think I’ll wait to see what, if any, action is actually taken by IDEM before making that conclusion.

Union Go says it put a dam on the creek to pump the manure out of it after the spill. I do not know anything about Sparrow Creek, but I imagine that water was flowing in it at the time of the spill, and I wonder how much manure they could realistically recovered from the creek.

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