Protect Buffalo River - letter to editor

17 Mar 2018 8:02 AM | Anonymous member

I have been following the fiasco regarding the C&H Hog Farms permit from the beginning.


Mike Masterson with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has written several columns regarding this misplaced hog farm that is polluting the Buffalo National River. It seems the Department of Environmental Quality did not follow many of its own rules and regulations by granting the original permit for the farm.


I read in the paper that the state Legislature sneaked a last-minute item in the special session to let C&H continue to operate on its original permit which allows up to 5,000 gallons per day of hog waste to leak from the hog waste ponds. I ask the Democrat-Gazette to publish a list of our state legislators who voted for and against this proposal so the voters can see how they voted on this critical issue.


The former legislators who pushed through for the Buffalo River to be designated as a national river must be rolling over in their graves!


TERRY MONTAGNE