DO MANURE LAGOONS LEAK AND POLLUTE?

Western Environmental Law Center’s Andrea Rodgers keeps insisting that manure lagoons leak massive amount of manure into groundwater and that causes pollution leading to a public health crisis of “first order.”

She doesn’t have her science right at all.

Do manure lagoons leak? You will see in this presentation that proper lagoons leak very little and what the small amount they leak does not equate to pollution.