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Saturday, October 23, 2004
Environment - More EPA CWA violations at dairy farms reported
At the beginning of October the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported "EPA cites five Ohio dairies for violations." Read the ILB entry here. At the time, the paper reported:
They are among 10 northwest Ohio dairies the EPA inspected in November 2003. The EPA has inspected an additional 35 Midwest dairies, 10 of which were sent violation notices. The EPA will not release the names of those farms until the agency is able to confirm that the notices were received, said Arnie Lieder, enforcement officer for EPA Region 5, which comprises Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin.Yesterday, Oct. 22, the Plain Dealer continued the story with this report. Some quotes:
Four more Ohio dairies - among 11 overall - have been cited for violations of the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Thursday.The dairies, including four in Indiana and three in Michigan, join five other Ohio dairies cited in September for extensive manure and wastewater management problems.
All the dairies are among 41 built by the Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development Corp., a Wauseon, Ohio-based company that helps mostly Dutch dairy farmers establish businesses in the United States.
The violation notices were issued on the basis of unannounced U.S. EPA inspections in November 2003. * * *
The EPA found eight violations at Arts Dairy, including manure spills around its open-stall barn, manure storage pit and calf pens. The Arts Dairy, which has 2,000 cows, is the only one regulated by the Ohio Department of Agriculture. The other Ohio farms have fewer than 700 cows, the number required for state regulation.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 23, 2004 09:43 AM
Posted to Environmental Issues