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Neighbors tell Scott County supervisors smoke from large farm burn forced them from their home
Summary
Residents said multiple large burn pits dug and set alight at a nearby farm sent smoke toward their house, forcing them to leave and prompting a complaint to the Iowa DNR; they urged the board to consider stronger county protections or enforcement.
Dave Gollinghorst told the Scott County Board of Supervisors that his neighbors at a recent farm purchase, identified in his remarks as Grandview Farms, dug several large pits, placed household and farm structures and other debris into them and lit them while it was windy, sending heavy smoke toward his home.
"They lit them and of course it's been fairly windy and the wind was out of the south which blows it right directly to our…
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