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Dairy farms taking a toll on Great Lakes, waterways


April 25, 2016  by Detroit Free Press

April 25, 2016, Port Huron, MI – On an August weekend in 2009, campers in the Port Huron State Game Area began to realize there was something terribly wrong with the Black River.

They were finding dead fish floating on the river’s surface.

Eventually, the cause of the fish kill was traced to an excessive application of liquid cow manure at a dairy farm in Croswell, Mich. READ MORE

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