Earthjustice Fertile Grounds Blog POTENTIALLY LETHAL EMISSIONS GO UNREPORTED ON FACTORY FARMS By Jonathan Smith | Monday, December 12, 2016 In many rural communities across the country, longtime residents have suddenly found themselves surrounded by industrial livestock facilities. In these facilities, hundreds of cows, thousands of pigs or tens of thousands of […]
Threat unchanged NWAOnline Lest readers become confused by results coming out of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s (cough) results of the single hole drilled near one of the waste lagoons at C&H Hog Farms in the Buffalo National River watershed, please allow me to remind everyone. This was but […]
Arkansas Times Judge hears arguments in appeal of hog waste ‘land farming’ permit near Buffalo River Posted By Benjamin Hardy on Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:26 PM This morning, arguments for and against a permit to ‘land farm’ up to 6.7 million gallons of hog waste in the Buffalo River watershed were presented to Charles Moulton, an […]
Environment notebook By Emily Walkenhorst Group wants time with hog-farm data The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality should allow the public more time to submit questions regarding the test results on a project to detect whether a hog manure pond is leaking on a farm in Mount Judea, a member of […]
Many questions, no answers Not transparent By Mike Masterson t’s taken months for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) to finally announce to the public that the suspicious large plume and suspected fracture cited beneath the corner of a massive hog waste lagoon at C&H Hog Farms apparently contains nothing […]
Questions remain after report on C&H Hog Farms drilling study near the Buffalo River BY TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2ND 2016 NORTH LITTLE ROCK (TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS) — More research will be necessary to determine whether the waste storage ponds at C&H Hog Farms in Newton County have contaminated […]
KKUAR Radio Hog Farm Drilling Study Leaves More Questions Than Answers http://ualrpublicradio.org/post/hog-farm-drilling-study-presentation-leaves-more-questions-answers#stream/0 A consultant hired by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality presented findings at the agency’s headquarters Thursday of subsurface tests made at a controversial swine farm near the Buffalo National River. ADEQ and environmental advocates are still mulling […]
Arkansas Democrat- Gazette State agency gets hog-farm drilling results Neither contractor nor environmental officials draw conclusions from research By Emily Walkenhorst A contractor has turned over to the state the results of its tests to determine whether a hog farm in Mount Judea is leaking manure into the ground, but the […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Sides file in manure-use dispute; judge to decide whether Arkansas farmer must acquire new permit By Emily Walkenhorst Parties in a case appealing Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality-approved permit changes on a property in the Buffalo River watershed filed briefs this week. The parties argued over whether Ellis […]
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 […]