at the legislature of NC caring about doing right by its citizens
Hog Farmers Scramble to Drain Waste Pools Ahead Of Hurricane Florence
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at the legislature of NC caring about doing right by its citizens
the cac mamba
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took the words right out of my mouth, Goldman :jaymelo:
but in all seriousness, maybe you can point to the regulation in blue states that ensures that massive fukking hurricanes won't flood out an animal farm. i'm sure several of them exist and are 100% effective
People can be so stupid and lazy without outside incentives. Really, what kind of bright mind thought that just letting all that stuff sit out as open waste was the best thing to do with it, hurricanes or not?
The N.C. Pork Council, an industry advocacy organization, issued an advisory of its own saying that of the four that are compromised, only one lagoon is known to have breached. At that lagoon, on a small farm in Duplin County, the water flowed out through an opening in the wall, but the pit retained most of the fluids and solid waste material that sinks to the bottom of the lagoon, according to the Pork Council.
The organization said in a statement that damage to lagoons and spills appears to be limited.
“We do not believe, based on on-farm assessments to date and industry-wide surveying, that there are widespread impacts to the more than 2,100 farms with more than 3,300 anaerobic treatment lagoons in the state,” the council said.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it is monitoring hog lagoons and coordinating with state regulators, as needed, to assess impacts to downstream drinking water.
Read more here: Florence drowns 5,500 pigs and 3.4 million chickens. The numbers are expected to rise.
Hopefully the people of NC make their voices heard locally on this issue... federal regulators were aware of this in 2016 and did little...
The organization said in a statement that damage to lagoons and spills appears to be limited.
“We do not believe, based on on-farm assessments to date and industry-wide surveying, that there are widespread impacts to the more than 2,100 farms with more than 3,300 anaerobic treatment lagoons in the state,” the council said.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it is monitoring hog lagoons and coordinating with state regulators, as needed, to assess impacts to downstream drinking water.
Read more here: Florence drowns 5,500 pigs and 3.4 million chickens. The numbers are expected to rise.
Hopefully the people of NC make their voices heard locally on this issue... federal regulators were aware of this in 2016 and did little... 
The state/county should of had a better plan of managing that waste