JD you are so right! The little guys are the constant polluters, not the big guys. Large operations are required to submit manure plans. Before the manure is spread, the soil it will be applied to has to be tested. I don't know if it's required to be gridded or just random around the field tested. Mine is gridded and it costs me thousands of dollars. If I buy manure from a 'factory' farm I have to submit my soil samples to the applicator and if the samples are out of date I have to have it sampled before the applicator can apply the manure to that land.
When I had livestock I was a little guy but my yards drained directly into a county drainage ditch that goes into the Raccoon river and eventually ends up in the Mississippi. You know where some of my manure ended up after a hard rain, so I got out of it. Today if I had livestock I still might not be regulated because of the size of my operation, but some of my manure from my yards would still drain right into that ditch.
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