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Life for Wisconsin families has been disrupted by the relatively rare practice in Wisconsin of using water irrigation systems to spray liquid manure on farm fields. Now the issue has taken on new urgency as more large dairy farms consider using the practice.
April 27, 2014 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2014/04/manure-spraying-under-scrutiny/Six leading researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health are warning northeastern Wisconsin rural residents that over-application of manure at intensive livestock operations could cause them a host of health problems and damage the environment.
April 2, 2014 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2014/04/researchers-warn-of-manures-health-risks-for-rural-wisconsinites/A four-day hearing on challenges to the expansion of a Kewaunee County mega-dairy illustrated deep divisions, ranging from neighbors who shared fears of polluted wells and illness to fertilizer and feed dealers who showed up to express their support of big farms.
February 14, 2014 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2014/02/mega-dairys-growth-plans-hotly-debated/In a Green Bay hearing beginning Tuesday, a controversial attempt to expand a dairy farm set to become the fifth largest in Wisconsin will be challenged in a case that could have a far-reaching impact on how Wisconsin regulates industrial-size livestock farms.
February 8, 2014 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2014/02/disputed-expansion-of-dairy-watched-for-statewide-impact/Water-quality advocates say the state Department of Natural Resources’ regulation of large farms, known as concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs, is too lax. DNR acknowledges low staffing levels have strained enforcement efforts, and described the program.
February 8, 2014 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2014/02/dnr-vacancies-hinder-cafo-enforcement/Private well owners are not required to test their water quality. Yet the Division of Public Health urges well owners to test because so many wells are contaminated.
December 15, 2013 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2013/12/resources-private-well-testing-and-karst/In one of the most intensively farmed parts of America’s Dairyland, where 29 percent of the county’s private wells test unsafe due to bacteria or nitrates, residents have a new concern: estrogenic well water.
December 15, 2013 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2013/12/hormonal-wells-found-in-states-karst-region-dairy-farms-possible-source/The impact of a controversial bill that would restrict local government regulation of frac sand mines might be broader than originally thought, affecting the proposed iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin and factory farms across the state, opponents said Thursday at a Capitol hearing.
October 24, 2013 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2013/10/sand-mining-bill-could-also-affect-iron-mine-factory-farms/Town chairman Lee Engelbrecht says his hogs, sheep, heifers and feeder steers likely would stay put on the family farm if a disaster ever struck Point Beach Nuclear Plant, about a mile away, or Kewaunee Power Station, five miles north on Wisconsin 42. Engelbrecht, 57, didn’t think that was a very realistic possibility before 9/11 … or now. “Nobody living in Two Creeks has any fear about living near Point Beach,” says the lifelong resident on Two Creeks Road.
September 11, 2011 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2011/09/evacuation-plans-in-place-but-officials-dont-expect-all-people-animals-to-leave/TOWN OF TWO CREEKS — Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials say there has never been a security breach into an American power plant. It’s certainly not a matter of luck, say staff members at the NRC and Wisconsin’s two nuclear power plants — Kewaunee Power Station and Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant in the town on the northern edge of Manitowoc County. Sara Cassidy, manager of nuclear communications for NextEra Point Beach, says the industry has spent $1.2 billion and many thousands of hours of training in the decade since 9/11 on security enhancements in response to NRC mandates.
September 11, 2011 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2011/09/22832/Federal funding to protect key infrastructure grew after the 9/11 attacks, but has declined as overall homeland security funding has dropped sharply in Wisconsin. That has forced a shift in strategy away from protecting sites to responding more effectively if man-made or natural disasters occur. Part 2 of 3 in the series “Security after 9/11: 10 Years Later.”
September 4, 2011 https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/2011/09/8644/