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Three Counties Deny Iowa Select Farms’ Hog Confinement Applications

Three Iowa counties have denied four applications for factory farms. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI) reported yesterday that supervisors in Franklin, Humboldt and Webster Counties recommended to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that these applications from Iowa Select Farms be rejected. ICCI claims that there are at least 750 impaired waterbodies in Iowa, mostly caused by E. coli bacteria, which is associated with manure. They also say that most of the manure from Iowa Select’s proposed new facilities will be dumped, untreated, on farm fields in the Raccoon River and Des Moines River watersheds. Iowa Select is the largest pork producer in the state and had submitted applications for 19 hog confinements in Iowa. This would equate to an additional 90,000 hogs, producing more than 36.7 million gallons of manure. ICCI says these applications are not site specific nor do they address key concerns, thereby circumventing the master matrix, which is meant to provide more protections for Iowa’s air, water and communities.

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