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Hog Farmers Scramble to Drain Waste Pools Ahead of Hurricane Florence

  • September 12, 2018

While residents along the Carolina coasts rush to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Florence, hog farmers are in a race against time in an effort to keep their manure lagoons from flooding. In a worst-case scenario, the lagoons could erode from the expected 3 feet of rain, and collapse, spreading animal waste across the landscape and into nearby rivers, WFAE reports. The hog farmers are pumping the liquid waste onto nearby fields as fast as they can, to give the lagoons as much chance as...