Four south-central Pennsylvania counties where animal manure is heavily used to fertilize crops “contribute disproportionately” to the nitrogen and phosphorus pollution fouling local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay, according to the report by the Environmental Integrity Project.
The Washington, D.C.-based group calculates that farmers in Lancaster, Lebanon, Franklin and Union counties apply up to four to five times as much manure per acre as growers do in other Pennsylvania counties. Drawing on data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Chesapeake Bay Program, the EIP estimates that about 18 percent of the nitrogen and phosphorus in that manure runs off into local waterways.
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Come on water keepers Sue sue sue I'm sure PA will give you plenty of free lawyer's just like Maryland did.
" Drawing on data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Chesapeake Bay Program, the EIP estimates that about 18 percent of the nitrogen and phosphorus in that manure runs off into local waterways."
Really? I wonder what the real physical data said from when they took actual water samples during a rainstorm runoff period immediately downstream of these fields? bWouldn't that provide accurate data instead of "estimates"?
It's amazing to read 3 pages of drivel based on "estimates" from "reports" from "agencies" and "Foundations".
With all the CAFOs going up here. We won't b far behind the.
Put some DEF in that machine !!!!
Are they saying that the Amish are to blame?
Use People Manure then !! Plenty of that in DC !!!
Just ADD some Rid X !! Problem Solved
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