It has become apparent that C&H Hog Farm misrepresented its authority to use several fields as sprayfields in its Nutrient Management Plan (NMP) for its hog operation. Property owners of land in three of these fields had denied permission to include their land in the sprayfield area. Both ADEQ and C&H were aware that there were issues with the owners of these fields. Now a portion of the land has been used in the state-funded U of A water monitoring project. This means over a half million dollars in taxpayer money was used for water monitoring on fields which should not have been included in the NMP to begin with, and should not have been used in testing by the University.
See Links below for today’s Press Release regarding this new development as well as a letter addressed to ADEQ requesting that the C&H permit be re-opened. The ADEQ letter includes backup documentation from the landowners.
ADEQ Letter 2-12-2014 with Attachments