MatcomNews Update: Burning Manure Pile In Nebraska Finally Extinguished

[matcom]

*original reporting by Underpants*

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MILFORD, Neb. -- It took nearly four months, but to the relief of neighbors miles around, a burning manure pile has been extinguished.

David Dickinson, owner and manager of Midwest Feeding Co., said Wednesday that several weeks of pulling the 2,000-ton pile apart proved effective by late last week.

"We got far enough through it, that it quit," Dickinson said.

Dickinson's feedlot, about 20 miles west of Lincoln, takes in as many as 12,000 cows at a time from farmers and ranchers and fattens them for market.

Byproducts from the massive operation resulted in a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide. Heat from the decomposing manure deep inside the pile is believed to have eventually ignited the manure.

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality told Dickinson that his smoldering dung pile violated clean-air laws and it worked with him as tried to extinguish it

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/02/23/burning_manure_pile_in_nebraska_goes_out/

[demnan]

1. Don't worry

there are still plenty of steaming piles of shit that are still around.

[punpirate]

4. Steaming piles of shit...

... I can live with... it's the flaming piles of shit in DC that really bother me.... :)

[GOPFighter]

2. And a new tourist destination is born

"Dickinson's Dunghill" Right up there with the world's largest ball of string.

[drumwolf]

3. yeah, right.... SURE, that smell came from a burning manure pile.

We all know that smell came from that huge butt-crack on your smiley, it's all that walking he does. That's why the blue hippo never stops waving the smell away, he's the one right next to it.

[Spinzonner]

5. Sounds like a lot of crap to me