Report presented by Carol Bitting to APC&E Commission, April 25, 2014n Preliminary results of the dye tracing test on Big Creek are these; we initially injected dye into a dug well across the county road from C & H Hog Farm at 9:30 am Tuesday morning, April 22. We recovered […]
Panel halts new pig-farm permits in watershed By Ryan McGeeney This article was published April 26, 2014 at 4:38 a.m. · The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission issued a 180-day moratorium Friday on the issuance of permits for medium- and large-scale, swine animal-feeding operations and concentrated animal-feeding operations within […]
Arkansas Times Ozark Society and Arkansas Public Policy Panel pushing rule to ban new large swine farms in Buffalo River watershed Posted by David Ramsey on Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission today granted petitions to begin the rulemaking process to prohibit […]
http://mikemastersonsmessenger.com/dangerous-e-coli-soars-along-big-creek/ By Mike Masterson Posted: April 19, 2014 at 2:52 a.m. “E. coli soars in Big Creek By Mike Masterson Posted: April 19, 2014 at 2:52 a.m. National Park Service water-quality tests conducted earlier this month along Big Creek near where it converges with the Buffalo National River showed harmful […]
A Letter to Cargill Northwest Arkansas Times By Mike Masterson Posted: April 12, 2014 at 2:41 a.m. While a single voice raised in the court of public opinion can prompt change, I’ve found even greater power from voices lifted in unison. Many outcries lifted in harmony can carry enormous influence when […]
Robert Cross: Buffalo River, like the Illinois, under attack Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:00 am | Updated: 4:47 am, Thu Apr 10, 2014.By ROBERT CROSS nn Anyone who has recently floated northeast Oklahoma’s Illinois River very well knows it’s not the sparkling stream of generations past. The once clear, free-flowing […]