In 2014, Connie Willett and her husband built a house on a 27-acre lot in the country between Green Lake and Ripon. They had a well dug and tested the water to make sure it was clean.
In the spring of 2016, Willett said, a farmer dumped liquid manure onto a field about half a mile from their home.
Ken Notes: I am not even worried about the truckloads or the tractor loads in the photo. I am worried about the network of ten inch pipe and hoses that deliver liquid manure miles and miles from the source to fields obscure to what people can see and what DNR can detect with the sole intent of emptying the pits. This is not soil management this is equivalent to factories in the 60`s and 70`s dumping toxic waste into our waterways. These farms are lobbying heavily to remain unregulated and it is working...
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