• Home
  • About
    • Mission, Vision, Goals
    • Board of Directors
    • Staff
    • CSP History & Projects
  • Projects
    • Drinking Water
    • Surface Water
    • Karst Geology
    • Mining
    • Agriculture
  • Resources
  • Get Involved!
  • Donate
  • Contact Us

Important Action Needed on Roth Feeder Pig 2!

Current action to take: Send a request for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to the following individuals:

Contacts:
David Siebert (DNR Division Administrator): David.Siebert@wisconsin.gov
Todd Ambs (DNR Deputy Secretary): Todd.Ambs@wisconsin.gov
Preston Cole (DNR Secretary): Preston.Cole@wisconsin.gov 
Mandela Barnes (WI Lieutenant Governor): LtGovernor@wisconsin.gov 


The DNR has drafted  a proposed permit for Roth Feeder Pig II, with a “tentative recommendation to approve.” But not all hope is lost! Action can still be taken to prevent this factory farm from expanding, or at a minimum, impose permit conditions that address some of our many concerns about this project. 

In November, more than 200 Crawford County residents formally requested that the DNR prepare an an Environmental Impact Statement  (EIS), but the DNR has yet to agree to conduct one. It appears the agency may consider their “integrated analysis” to be sufficient. The failure to adequately respond to the EIS request is only one of many deficiencies with this draft permit. Other deficiencies include:

  • No groundwater monitoring for manure spreading fields
  • A faulty claim that clay soils will have no issues with leaching at production site
  • Too many animal units for the number of acres (plus, largely rented acres, and extreme slopes)
  • Allowing separately permitted facilities to co-mingle manure
  • Failure to address groundwater quantity issues
  • The brief summary statements in themselves show the inadequacy of the environmental review process for a project of this scale in such a sensitive area

If you need any help or guidance on this situation, we welcome you to contact us.

Click here for additional information on the Roth Feeder Pig II permit application and the DNR permitting process

To view the proposed permit and fact sheet, click here

May 11, 2021 Forest Jahnke

Post navigation

Spring/Summer 2021 Newsletter Has Arrived! → ← Join us for a Farming Discussion!

2 thoughts on “Important Action Needed on Roth Feeder Pig 2!”

  1. Michael Hranicka says:
    May 27, 2021 at 2:37 am

    These CAFO farms are destroying every environment they’re allowed in. Disease, pollution you name it! Please don’t let our state literally go to shit! It’s time we say no to poor farming practices.

    Reply
  2. David Banner says:
    June 10, 2021 at 3:14 pm

    Stop this insanity NOW!

    Dr. David Banner

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Interactive Karst Map

Click to open the Interactive Karst Map

Sinkhole Concentrations

Sinkholes

Depth to bedrock

Carbonate bedrock

Special Groundwater Risk Areas

Generalized Soil Parent Material

Soil Drainage and Hydrology Factors

Address
Crawford Stewardship Project
P.O. Box 284
Gays Mills, WI 54631
Email
contact@crawfordstewardship.org
Crawford Stewardship Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered in the state of Wisconsin. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Support CSP

Send a check to:

Crawford Stewardship Project
P.O. Box 284
Gays Mills, WI 54631

OR via PayPal

Powered by WordPress | theme Layout Builder
Your browser does not support the video tag.

My name here

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when lookin

502k 100k 3 month ago