(Spencer)– A proposed hog lot south of Everly is going to be smaller than originally planned.
At their meeting Tuesday, the Clay county board of supervisors held a public hearing on a proposed 33-hundred-head hog operation in Lone Tree Township.
Clay County Environmental Health Director Tammy KcKeever informed the board the owner of the proposed operation, Quinton Harmon, withdrew his application from the DNR after the site failed the Master Matrix. McKeever says Harmon also changed his mind after talking with residents that live near the site who were opposed to the size of the proposed operation.
The new proposal Harmon has submitted to the state calls for a 24-hundred finishing operation to be built about a quarter of a mile west of the initial site just east of Clay County Road M-27.
Harmon will have to submit a manure management plan with the county within 90 days of applying manure at the site.
(Story from Danielle Hitchings of sister station KDWD Hot 100 in Spencer.).
