RSSDairies' discharge at issue in court
Yakima Herald-Republic
The best justice money can buy. When the day comes that we finally find out the full extent of the unregulated dairy pollution in Yakima county, I hope that the polluters are joined in federal prison by their lackeys and flunkies in state and county governments. We NEED the federal government through the EPA to come in and clean up this mess. Do people have the right to clean drinking water in Yakima? I guess not. Not as long as dirty dairy money finds its way into local political campaigns.
Report ViolationYakima County is an unregulated environmental mess. These factory dairies have moved to Yakima County with the blessing of our ignorant, biased, government officials. Here's some excuses the dairy industry uses to try and fool the public:
1. We just want to be good neighbors.
2. It's the golf cources, not the cows.
3. We are now mortality composting- no more "Mad Cow".
4. We aren't making any money. Look at the mansions at the Ord Dairy in Sunnyside.
5. It's the ducks geese and beavers polluting the rivers. (That's a heck of a lot of bird and beaver poop.)
6. We are "High tech!" You want to see high tech? Check out the sewage pits, the dairies call lagoons; they are bubbling masses of toxic, rancid, raw, untreated sewer going into your aquifer.
When will they stop polluting? When the whole aquifer is destroyed? Why do you think thy want "Black Rock?"
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Unbelievable, of 161 CAFO's in the State, only 35 are required to apply for a permit! I'm guessing the other 126 are judged too small to be adding to the problem? I'll bet that's why,if you look at the Lower Valley, one dairyman, or family, has several separate dairies so they can go unregulated. This waste issue is nothing more than a mirror image of major pollution problems of the past such as with the asbestos industry and Love Canal. Expensive lawyers, blind or industry-sympathetic judges only prolong what needs to be corrected. I read, recently, that it takes 250 years to flush pollutants from an aquifer. Get with it, Judges.
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