The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens Board has given a Thief River Falls dairy farm one final month to remove hazardous manure from three uncovered outdoor basins. The 1,500 cow farm has been declared a public health hazard. Gaylen Reetz, director of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s regional division.
“They made it clear that their expectation is that there be some resolution prior to next board meeting,” said Gaylen Reetz, director of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s regional division.
The farm was granted an extra month because contractors are set to remove the waste once the land is dry enough to do so.
The farm, Excel Dairy, opened in 2007, but has been shut down since January after failing an inspection by the Minnesota Health Department.
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