A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5, 1991
New Manure Pit Liner Shows Environmental Promises
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
GETTYSBURG (Adams
Co.) —Not many farmers have
considered their manure as hazard
ous waste. But the newest thing in
manure pit construction uses the
An Invitation To Lancaster
County Vegetable Growers
Hear Don Robinson At
The Barevllle Fire Hall
Tuesday, January 8, 1991 12:30 PM
Don Will Be Speaking On The Following Subjects
• Yields On Vegetable Demonstration Plot
At Leola Produce
• Experiments Using Colored Mulch To
Increase Yields
• Guide Lines on Packaging Quality Vegetables
• Economics of Vegetable Production
Also Speaking
Bruce HeUerick
Lancaster County Horticulture Agent
• Pesticide Use and Safety
Meeting Will Qualify Farmers For Pesticide
License Update Credits
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same type high densitity
polyethylene liner that the Envir
onmental Protection Agency
requires for toxic materials. The
farm version is not as thick, of
course. But the end product obtains
the same results; no filtration of the
waste into the ground to contami
nate the underground water supply.
For the past two years, Larry and
Vaughn Brubaker, Myerstown,
have been working with farmers
and the local conservation districts
to find a construction material that
will meet the farmer’s need to
avoid environmental
contamination.
Concrete is going to get cracks
in it,” Larry said. “And it’s porous.
Moisture will draw up and down.
Even steel reinforced concrete,
which is as good as you can install,
will have a tendency to have
shrinkage cracks.”
Township ordinances to legi
slate manure handling practices are
popular right now, and laws that
carry severe penalities for under
water and stream contamination
from livestock manure run-off are
on the books. So the plastic liner in
the bottom of the manure pit has
shown great promise. And it’s cost
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> Oak Mills and Larry and Vaughn Bru
baker, Manada Construction Company talk manure
handling.
efficient.
The Brubakers construct the pit gnalable liner. And while the word
with their earth moving equipment “plastic” in relation to waste causes
and install underground stainless a mental vision of a garbage bag
steel piping for manure agitation the liner is 60 mils thick. You can’t
and removal. In addition, under- punch a whole in it. The seams are
ground water bleed pipes are welded and the material carries a
installed so that springs or any 20 year guarantee,
other under-surface water will not (Turn to Pag* A4O)
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try to force up through the impre-