It’s All of Our Concern

All of Wisconsin needs to be concerned.

If they allow over expansions and liquefied manure spreading on thin and sensitive soils over karst topography in northeast Wisconsin, the permitting of more mega dairies and other livestock CAFOs will continue throughout the state.

Door County is in danger of being bombarded with proposals for new mega dairy sites and spreading liquid manure from over the county line by the dairy industry. They are treating all of Wisconsin as a one-size-fits-all topography and geography. Be it on karst or sand or located along a lakefront…whatever the Dairy Business Association (DBA) wants.

If their own large-scale facility’s waste wasn’t enough, there are cases where operators take on waste from other non-agricultural industries to co-mingle with their own. The DNR doesn’t regulate this activity. This isn’t your “grandfather’s” simple manure, and they are running out of places to put it.

The dairy industry doesn’t care about the business plans, dreams, or investments of the “non dairy” – homeowners, investors, entrepreneurs and tourists, these types of folks are just in the way.

Plunging property values, contaminated air, water and health threats are a given as massive amounts of manure “cross the line.”

Susan Turner
Warren, Ill.
August 13th, 2015