Ohio conference shines spotlight on big factory farms’ impact on water quality

At a May event, the Lake Erie Waterkeepers hosted a conference called, “Assessing Manure in Williams (Ohio) and Steuben (Indiana) Counties in the Lake Erie Watershed.”
Several presenters from Iowa to Mayland spoke of health and environmental enforcement, or lack of it, at Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in their states. Hosted by the Bryan Eagles in Ohio’s Williams County, several residents and those from adjacent Steuben County in Indiana listened as some testified about the horror they are going through with rapidly proliferating facilities surrounding their communities.

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