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Animal waste ordinance work group meets; stakeholders back nutrient management, buffers and incremental phosphorus targets
Summary
CPZ staff updated the ERC on two work group meetings focused on proposed animal-waste ordinance amendments. About 25 stakeholders, mostly farmers, discussed data sources, winter manure-spreading limits, nutrient-management expansion and buffer or cover-crop approaches.
Marathon County Conservation, Planning & Zoning (CPZ) staff updated the Environmental Resource Committee April 29 on the first two meetings of an animal-waste ordinance work group that includes about 25 stakeholders, predominantly farmers of varying operation sizes.
Matt Repping (CPZ) told the committee the work group spent its first meeting reviewing water-quality data and strategic plans, with emphasis on total phosphorus monitoring in the Big Eau Pleine (Big O) reservoir watershed and other Wisconsin River system watersheds. Participants reviewed DNR TMDL data, local monitoring from the Wisconsin…
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