Posted May 28, 2014
A northwest Iowa cattle producer has agreed to a pay a court ordered $12,000 fine for improperly applying manure on fields that flowed into a tributary of a local creek in 2012, according to an article by The Associated Press available here. WCF Courier also published the article available here.
According to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Vernon Van Beek failed to report the discharges, which were discovered during a routine inspection in June 2012.
Van Beek owns Lone Tree Feedlot near Inwood and raises about 900 cows.
Van Beek agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Tom Miller representing the DNR.
State records show the farm discharged in 2009, 2010, and three times in 2011.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered the farm to obtain a Clean Water Act permit from the DNR after the 2010 spill. A permit was issued in 2012.
For more information on the Clean Water Act, please visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
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