1. Fox Valley Water Resources What do we have to lose?

3. Pike River, Marinette County (Science Daily, Oct. 6, 2010) Pine Lake, Washara County Bear Paw Lake, Oconto County Fox Valley’s Outstanding Resource Waters

10. CAFOs in the Fox Valley

11. 1 dairy cow creates as much polluted wastewater as 18 people CAFO =At least 700 dairy cows ~2,500 feeder pigs ~55,000 turkeys ~125,000 chickens (other than hens that lay eggs) Farms with 1,000 animal units need a water protection permit. [1 dairy cow= 1.4 animal units]

12. Many Outstanding Water Resources… Many Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

13. Wisconsin currently has at least 194 Permitted CAFOs Many have the potential to pollute nearby water & land resources, Decrease Property Values, And impact the quality of life for those living nearby

14. Wisconsin uses taxpayer subsidies to expand CAFOs In addition to indirect subsidies CAFOs receive in form of crop support, direct subsides also encourage the proliferation of CAFOs At the national level, largest direct subsidy is Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), originally intended to help smell and medium-sized livestock farms address pollution. In 2002: EQUIP’s emphasis changed dramatically, making CAFO’s a major funding recipient “ CAFOs aren’t the natural result of agricultural progress, nor are they the result of rational planning or market forces.” - Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist in UCS’s Food and Environment Program

30. “ Cows are milked on the $1 million, 80-stall rotary milking parlor at the Rosendale Dairy. It takes nine minutes for a cow to be milked once it steps onto the revolving platform.” Mark Hoffman, JS Online, Feb. 28, 2009

31. JS Online, Feb. 28, 2009. Mark Hoffman “ The indoor manure pool is shown with about three feet of waste in it. The augers in the background are for recycling the sand that is used for the bedding in the barn.”

32. “ Bulk milk tank trucks use these loading bays. If the dairy farm were fully operational it would produce enough to fill 11 tanker trucks of milk a day.” Mark Hoffman, JS Online, Feb. 28, 2009 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/40490387.html

36. Many Other Threats … & Many Opportunities for Action! Murphy Oil Refinery: Northern Wisconsin, Lake Superior; Chemical use on the shore threatens water Nuclear Waste Storage: Point Beach, Kewaunee nuclear plants “temporarily” store nuclear waste on Lake Michigan in pools, dry cask; leaks reported in many other locations SS Badger Ferry : Burns 55 tons of coal; Dumps 3.8 tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan every day

53. UWEX Water Monitoring Contacts Erin McFarlane Clean Boats Clean Waters Program Coordinator UWEX Lake Program UW Stevens Point College of Nat Res. 800 Reserve St. Stevens Point WI 54481 715-346-4978 [email_address] Bob DuBois Biologist Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources 1401 Tower Ave Superior WI 54880 715-392-6976 [email_address] Kris Stepenuck Citizen Stream Monitoring Program Coordinator Environmental Resources Center 445 Henry Mall, Rm 202 Madison WI 53706 608-265-3887 [email_address] Lauren Herman Citizen Lake Monitoring Network Educator Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources 107 Sutliff Avenue Rhinelander WI 54501