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Updated: 9:04 PM Feb 9, 2010
River Advocates Allege Clean Water Act Violations
River advocates are alleging Clean Water Act violations by a Jones County hog operation.
Posted: 4:33 AM Feb 9, 2010 |
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River advocates are alleging Clean Water Act violations by a North Carolina hog operation.
The Southern Environmental Law Center, acting on behalf of the Lower Neuse Riverkeeper, the Neuse River keeper Alliance, and the Water keeper Alliance, sent a notice of intent to sue J.C. Howard's Hill and Taylor Farm in Jones County, claiming the farm is illegally discharging harmful pollutants into the waters of the Ne use River watershed.
Specifically, they claim the farm regularly violated the law by applying hog waster to fields so that the waste ran freely into ditches, off of the property and directly into nearby waterways.
The groups say if changes aren't made in two months, they'll file a lawsuit.
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Posted by: Billy
Location: ENC
on Feb 10, 2010 at 01:34 PM
Earthling, towns of 10,000 are using environment friendly waste structures (open pit lagoons) and treating waste properly (spraying on bermuda fields)
Posted by: Dean
Location: Leggett
on Feb 9, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Because of a few everybody thinks the hog farms are destroying the water supply when if people knew all that municipalaties dumped in the rivers everyday they would be a lot more outraged.Eastern N.C. has had an unusual last three months as far as weather is concernedand the farmers are forced to pump under less than ideal conditions,but I dont know the details of this farmer,if he deliberately discharged in perrenial waters then he needs to be disciplined.Finally,the river keepers hate hog farmers and want to regulate us out of business when we are among the most regulated of any waste producer in the state.
Posted by: Earthling
on Feb 9, 2010 at 06:39 PM
Anonymous, if you take a more worldly view you will learn that food prices in the US are some of the lowest amoungst the developed nations that depend upon industrial agriculture. That does not mean that we have a better diet however. Further, many of our food consumption habits have detrimental impacts to the environmment and human health within our borders and especially beyond. Our overuse of excessively processed foods and eating at the top of the food chain (meat) is not sustainable and it's killing us. Recent increases in the cost of livestock and poultry production and consumer prices can be attributed, to a large degree, on diverting corn and other grains to ethanol production - also not a sustainable track. BTW, when in town my sewage goes to the GUC Wastewater Treatment facility (tertiary treatment); when in the county I use a composting toilet. I am not a purist but I grow much of my own food. Lastly, read Michael Pollan and use the words "too" and "to" correctly.
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