Manure Management
Agricultural pollution (such as sediment and nutrient runoff) is a prime contributor to the nation's water quality problems.
This is highlighted by a PBS documentary on poison waters from chicken farms killing the Chesapeake Bay.
In Arkansas, the nation's leading poultry producing state, 90 percent of the surface water bodies (statewide) sampled recently by the Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology contained fecal coliform counts in excess of the primary contact standards. The waste management of the poultry farms in the state of Arkansas has caused the Oklahoma Attorney General to file suit. While BioStar is neutral in the dispute, the undisputed fact remains that agriculture manure management is problem in the United States.