(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson county board of supervisors Tuesday held a public hearing on a manure management plan filed by Brent Pohlman, a hog farmer just across the border in Jackson county.
Pohlman wants to apply manure from his Jackson county operation on some land in sections 16 and 17 of Diamond Lake Township in Dickinson county…about a mile south of the Minnesota stateline and a mile west of Diamond Lake. The area lies within the Little Sioux River watershed.
The manure is to be knifed into the ground.
David Kohlhaase, the county’s Zoning Administrator and Sanitarian, said his office had received no opposition to the plan.
While some questions were asked about the plan at Tuesday’s hearing, no one vocally opposed it.
The hearing was strictly a formality as the state has the final say over the matter. The county implemented the hearing process as a courtesy to let neighboring property owners give some input.
