deaddrift special report
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MONITORING
NEEDED
1/11/00 NDEQ memo to Director Marty Link concerning authority
to deny TeVelde permit.
NDEQ
MEMO: NO CLAY!
1/19/00 NDEQ memo regarding possible inadequate clay beneath
the dairy site.
POLLUTION TIMETABLE 1/21/00 memo from Director Marty Link NDEQ estimate to time for lagoon pollution to reach the Verdigre Creek. He also states that the velocity and direction of flow of the groundwater cannot be determined with available data.
FAST
TRACK TO CAFOVILLE
8/19/99 NDEQ memo fast tracking the Class I CAFO permit.
Was this to aid the dairy to beat the grandfather clause for existing
operations under LB 822? Does everyone get two day service at the NDEQ?
ENGINEERS
REPORT
Landowners engineer's analysis of site suitability by Kathy
Martin, P.E. a respected authority on CAFOs and waste treatment
facilities.
DAIRY
PLOT PLAN
I'm not kidding! This is what passes for a design plan for a CAFO.
Prepared by JES Environmental Services. Can you say, high school drafting
class?
WETLANDS
PHOTO
View of PABFX Federal Wetlands within sight of the TeVelde
Dairy.
STOCKYARD
RUN OFF
Tendrils of stockpiled waste flow from the dairy's feed lot
after a spring rain. Taken around the time that someone noticed
"brown frothy" effluent in a ditch draining into the Verdigre
Creek and federal wetlands.
DAIRY
AND WETLANDS
View of the TeVelde dairy looking west. I don't see any other
dairies, do you?
LAB
ANALYSIS
The "brown frothy" liquid results:
dairy waste
The Verdigre Creek
Antelope County Nebraska
Do you see the colors in the picture above.
That picture doesn't even come close to the actual beauty of this
spot.
Can you imagine the sound of the water as it flows and
undulates down
switchback banks? Or the hypnotic effect of swirling water?
Can you hear the red winged blackbirds call in the
spring or the wren
scold you from her streamside nest in summer? Or the chickadee's
zee zee zee when the creek is blanketed in snow?
Can you hear the gleeful laughter of your son or
daughter catching their first trout?
Can you feel the tension leave you as you concentrate
on the cast and the drift of your fly?
This is what this site, and what all this time and effort is about.
A rare cold water stream
in a land of many farms and dairies.
Please help us preserve the Verdigre Creek for future
generations.
The best way you can help is to come and see for yourself.
Contact deaddrift.com for information on this little prairie jewel.