KUAF Radio Mapping The Aquifers Of Arkansas by Jacqueline Froelich October 24, 2016 Listen here. A comprehensive guidebook, titled “The Aquifers of Arkansas” is available at no cost to the public. The manual maps and characterizes all the aquifers around the state. We go to the Kings River in Carroll […]
A new threat to the Buffalo Farm seeks permit to serve as disposal site for liquid hog waste. By Benjamin Hardy ArkTimes For over three years now, a fight has raged over C&H Hog Farm, a large concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Mt. Judea that houses some 6,500 swine near […]
Arkansasonline Hog-farm data’s release date set Agency to host Dec. 1 event on manure-leak tests’ results By Emily Walkenhorst The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality on Dec. 1 will receive the results of a drilling study conducted at C&H Hog Farms in Mount Judea, the department said Wednesday. The department also […]
Leading Investors Press Meat Producers to Tackle Water Pollution Risks Press Release, Nov. 21, 2016
Arkansas Times A new front in the war over hog waste in the Buffalo River watershed Posted By Benjamin Hardy on Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:29 PM A second farm in the Buffalo River watershed is now seeking to serve as a disposal site for potentially millions of gallons of liquid hog waste and has nearly obtained final legal […]
NWAonline Judge to rule on Arkansas farm’s altered permit, could spread 6.7 gallons of hog manure By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: November 17, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. An administrative law judge will decide on a motion to dismiss or a motion for summary judgment on an appeal of an environmental permit modification […]
Three grandmas persevere Buffalo hearing By Mike Masterson More than 100 showed up at the Don Nelms fine art gallery in Jasper last week to raise funds in support of our Buffalo National River. Some came from families who’ve lived five generations in the Buffalo watershed. Just as significant will be […]
Arkansas Times This week: A fight over hog waste in the Buffalo River watershed by Max Brantley November 14, 2016 Coming this week: A Pollution Control and Ecology Commission hearing Wednesday morning on the appeal of state approval of a modified permit for a farm to spread waste from the C and H hog […]
EPA favors some state water quality rules, not others By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: November 13, 2016 at 3:02 a.m. NWAOnline The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved of and disapproved of parts of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s water quality regulations nearly three years after the state submitted the regulations […]
Arkanasonline More algae seen on Buffalo River Sampling IDs several types By Emily Walkenhorst The National Park Service has collected two samples of algae at the Buffalo National River that appear to indicate more types of algae in the river than previous sampling by another federal agency revealed. In September, after […]
Arkansasonline Poultry farms split neighbors Plans for 1,000 houses raise concern for area’s watershed By Stephen Steed Posted: November 6, 2016 at 1:28 a.m. EVENING SHADE — Tempers flared Tuesday night in Evening Shade, putting the Sharp County town of 432 at odds with the largely idyllic setting of the television […]
Fran Alexander: What we eat Healthy eating means knowing where it comes from By Fran Alexander Posted: November 1, 2016 at 1 a.m. NWAOnline Most of us have heard, “You are what you eat.” As advice to eat right to grow strong or as an admonishment for eating junk, the phrase […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Gentlemen’s agreement Farms or habitat By Mike Masterson Posted: November 1, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. NWAOnline Months before a University of Arkansas agriculture professor was appointed head of the Big Creek Research and Extension Team formed to monitor waste from a hog factory in the Buffalo National River watershed, […]