UPDATE: PREBLE WATER POLLUTED AGAIN, NITRATES HIGH AGAIN!

A few years ago when the big 800 cow CAFO was coming into Homer there was an article, perhaps in the Cortland Standard, I can't remember now exactly where it was. In any case this article talked about how the CAFO was signing contracts for land at higher prices than Preble and other local farmers were paying and they were upset. Apparently you need a certain number of acres per cow to dispose of the manure. With the CAFO taking up all the land the local farmers had no place to put their manure. I assumed that they had found someplace since then but now with this nitrate problem I wonder if that is the case. I suppose there is a government agency that oversees this but I don't know which one. Someone had to come up with that requirement of so many acres per cow and I suppose they could check to see if all the farmers were complying with it. The timing of the big CAFO, the article and the high nitrates is too much of a coincidence to ignore.