Stop Scott County Factory Farm

[cyberswede]

Please consider contacting Iowa DNR Director Rich Leopold about this. Thanks!

http://www.capwiz.com/iowacci/issues/alert/?alertid=15241131&type=CU

From Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement:

Despite heated and organized community opposition, on June 24, the Scott County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to recommend that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approve a construction permit for a proposed 9,500-head a year cattle factory farm on the border of Cedar and Scott County.

If built, this factory farm will consume more than 200,000 gallons of water a day, produce more than 11 million gallons of toxic manure a year, threaten the already-impaired Mud Creek, Wapsipinicon and Mississippi Rivers, and possibly even contribute to the "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.

We won an important July 22 meeting with Iowa DNR Director Rich Leopold, the top environmental regulator in the state, and will ask him to deny the factory farm operators a construction permit for this site prior to the August 2 deadline. Take action - contact Iowa DNR Director Rich Leopold today!

http://www.capwiz.com/iowacci/issues/alert/?alertid=15241131&type=CU

[Bluzmann57]

1. Thanks for posting this

Heck I live in Scott County and have heard nothing about this. I will contact Mr. Leopold about this. Thanks again.

[rurallib]

2. will do.

[4dsc]

3. He should visit a factory farm and stay a while

Perhaps if the Scott County Board of Supervisors took a little visit to a factory cattle farm, like the in Nebraska on Hwy 80 headed to Denver, and tried to stay a while, I think they would have voted differently on this subject.