The Perquimans Weekly, Hertford, N.C., Thursday, July 13,1995 - Page 7,^
Livestock waste lagoon owners should be careful monitors
Operators of livestock and
poultry waste lagoons need to
follow their operations and
maintenance plans if their sys
tem is to function properly,
reports the USDA Natural
Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS). The recent
heavy rains and several recent
failures of livestock waste
facilities have brought some
urgency to this facet of live
stock and poultry production.
Lagoons are designed to
temporarily store and treat
waste waters prior to land
application or other use. There
are basically three distinct vol
umes to a lagoon. A permanent
volume provides for bacterial
treatment of the animal waste.
Liquids are not normally
removed from this volume.
The second volume provides
temporary storage of the ani
mal waste for day to day opera
tions. This volumes usually
provides six months of stor
age. These two volumes repre
sent the maximum height in
which any livestock waste
lagoon should ever reach dur
ing normal operations. The
third volume is reserved for
major storms and extra free-
Deadline nears
for reporting
crop insurance
acreage
July 15: All North Carolina
crop producers should keep
this date in mind. It is the
acreage reporting date for
spring-planted, insurable
crops and for all crops eligible
under the federal Non-insured
Assistance Program (NAP).
This year, because of the
U.S. Crop Insurance Reform
Act, it is especially important
that farmers remember to go
to a Consolidated Farm
Service Agency (formerly
ASCS) office or to their insur
ance agent, if they bought
insurance from a private com
pany, to report their planted
acreage by July 15.
If farmers don’t report their
acreage by the deadline, they
will lose not only their insur
ance benefits if a disaster
occurs, they will also lose their
commodity program support
payments and some other
USDA benefits.
The North Carolina insur
able crops subject to the July
15 acreage reporting date are
corn, cotton, grain sorghum,
peanuts, potatoes, soybeans
and tobacco. Crops eligible for
coverage under the Non-
Insured Assistance Program
include any commercial crop
grown for human or livestock
consumption, any commercial
ly produced aquaculture
species, floriculture, ornamen
tal nursery crops, Christmas
trees, turfgrass sod, industrial
crops and any commercial
crop grown for fiber (exclud
ing trees grown for wood,
paper or pulp products).
“The complete rules about
NAP coverage are still being
worked out in Washington,
especially those pertaining to
how an ‘area’ is defined, since
NAP coverage depends on an
area trigger,” Perquimans
County Cooperative Extension
Director Lewis Smith said.
“Still', acreage reporting dates
have been set across the coun
try. To remain eligible in case
of disaster - and there have
been several already this year
- farmers should report their
acreages.”
For* more information, farm
ers should contact their CFSA
office or the Perquimans
County Extension center at
426-5428.
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board - sometimes referred to
as a margin of safety. Allowing
effluent to rise into the third
volume eliminates the
designed safety factors and is
taking undue risk of overtop
ping and possible failure.
The maximum storage
capacity (volume 1 and volume
2) is available for periods
when crops are dormant, such
as during the winter, or dur
ing periods of extended rains.
In order to insure there is ade
quate storage at these levels
during these critical times, it
is important that operators
lower or reduce the volume in
their lagoons at every opportu
nity and not wait for the maxi
mum level to be reached.
The operation and mainte
nance plan identifies the
acreage needed for land appli
cation of the waste and what
crops should be grown on this
acreage. This needs to be fol
lowed if the operator is going
to have adequate land to apply
the effluent at the needed
times.
Other areas of operation
and maintenance should also
be monitored by the operator.
A vigorous grass cover should
be maintained on the struc
ture’s embankments, while
undesirable plants like trees
should not be allowed to
become established. Surface
runoff from the livestock
waste houses and surrounding
landscape should not be
allowed to run into the lagoon,
unless designed for this addi
tional water.
Livestock waste structures
can be well planned, designed,
and constructed, but then the
critical item becomes the oper
ation and maintenance on a
day-to-day basis. This can not
be over emphasized. These
structures have been designed
with no spillway of any nature
to prevent and eliminate
uncontrolled discharge. If
operating levels are not moni
tored and controlled the safety
factors are eliminated and fail
ure and spills can occur.
The vast majority of the ani
mal waste lagoons in the state
have functioned property dur
ing the recent heavy rains.
When operated and main
tained correctly there is no
reason that this means of han
dling animal waste can not be '
done safely. =■
Livestock and poultry oper
ators needing help or addition
al information on operatingr
and maintaining their live-,
stock waste lagoons can con-*"
tact their local Soil & Water
Conservation District or their»•
USDA Natural Resources*
Conservation Service office.
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