April 11, 2019 Just like clockwork, every year. Same field, just across the road from the south side of Devils Lake. Devils Lake is the headwaters of Bean Creek, which becomes the Tiffin and eventually the Maumee River in Ohio. … Continue Reading…
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April 10, 2019 Means getting slathered with manure. Of course, that happens in the summer, fall, and sometimes in the winter, too. Sending it all downstream, in this case to the City of Adrian, and on to Lake Erie. Cheers! … Continue Reading…
March 30, 2019 Travel way back with ECCSCM, to our Stench Alert post for May 19, 2018 of the Van Brunt/Halliwill/New Flevo manure heap on Forrister Rd. (Hazen Creek, S. Branch/Raisin). No containment, manure heaped up in big piles, every … Continue Reading…
The Sights and Smells of Christmas Are Different in CAFO-Land December 13, 2018 Part of a series of manure applications, exceptionally stinky, east side of Springville Hwy. between Woerner and Rome Rds., Rome Twp. (Raisin) Moving south, frozen ponded manure … Continue Reading…
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…