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Manure runoff in MI results in minor fish kill
June 26, 2012
By Huron Daily Tribune
By Huron Daily Tribune
June 26, 2012
By Huron Daily Tribune
By Huron Daily Tribune
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June 25, 2012, Huron Township, MI — Neighbors of a Meade Township dairy farm say they are extremely concerned after finding manure runoff from a farm field had made its way into a ditch and then into a nearby county drain resulting in the killing of fish.
Officials say Shupe Dairy was using a manure irrigator to spread cow manure onto a farm field with “an actively growing crop” in Meade Township June 21. When it rained that afternoon, the manure ran into a nearby shallow ditch and then into a county drain which runs along the property. READ MORE
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