July 10, 2019 Just in time for the Big Event, the Lake Erie Harmful Algae Bloom forecast. ECCSCM is here to tell everyone that the Michigan portion of the WLEB is doing its best to keep the manure rolling along, … Continue Reading…
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October 31, 2018 Overwhelmed by a deluge Not just rain. Manure. The worst yet, all at once. Confined livestock facilities store their waste in stockpiles, open cesspits (“lagoons”) to which millions of gallons of clean groundwater are added to make … Continue Reading…
Liquid manure on wheat stubble, field lies between Burton Rd. and US 223, just west of Springville Hwy. Can smell it 2 miles away. Again we ask – what crop is being fertilized here? (S. Branch/Raisin watershed) Hartland liquid manure … Continue Reading…
Manure farmers all over Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana are emptying their cesspit lagoons and stockpiles, in a hurry to get that untreated livestock sewage out onto the fields in between heavy rains last week, today, and the heavy rain predicted … Continue Reading…
September 28, 2017 Hartland dragline manure operation on newly-harvested corn field, SE corner of Hughes Hwy. and Beecher Rd., Hudson Township. (Raisin/Lake Erie watershed). No more growing crop, nothing left to irrigate, nothing left to fertilize. Just spewing. Up, down, back … Continue Reading…