Scott Walker's Manure report cites 'massive regulatory failure'

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Manure report cites 'massive regulatory failure'


Adam Rodewald, Press-Gazette Media 6:16 p.m. CDT June 10, 2015
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Weak regulatory oversight has allowed large-scale farms to "spiral out of control" and pollute groundwater without consequences, advocacy groups claim in a new report released Wednesday.

The report's authors accuse the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources of giving "tacit approval" for pollution by ignoring evidence of widespread spills, intentional discharges and the over-spreading of manure.

The report focuses on 16 large dairy and beef farms, referred to as concentrated animal feeding operations, in Kewaunee County, where some studies suggest one-third of private drinking wells are contaminated with nitrates, E. coli and other harmful bacteria.

RELATED:Read the report

"We should not mince words about this. This is nothing short of a public health emergency. What we're talking about are Third-World conditions in America's heartland," said Scott Dye, a field associate with the Oregon-based Socially Responsible Agricultural Project..............

[Scuba]

1. Squat Wanker's scorched earth policies strike again.

[ewagner]

2. Known this for about 7 months

I am chair of the Wood County Ad Hoc Committee on spray irrigation of waste (animal and human)...we've studied this because of a large CAFO coming into our county and, because the township didn't enact a zoning ordinance until after-the-fact, we found there was damned little we could do about it..

Counties have only the power the state gives them...if there is a state statute regulating something...ANYTHING...the County is forbidden to pass ordinances contrary to it...

soooooo

DNR controls animal wastes...and the county cannot enforce it without offering money to fix what ever violation they find...DNR can enforce but the number of inspectors has been cut, the funding for enforcement has been cut, and we can only apply the public health laws AFTER A PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT HAPPENS...we can't require anything pro-active.

I feel like I've been banging my head up against a wall for 7 months.

[Scuba]

3. What? You don't like the "tools" Walker gave you?

Walker is the real tool.

[riversedge]

4. Walker can take his tools and shove

them where the sun does not shine *his spot