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Several more Williams County livestock facilities have come back into compliance
COLUMBUS — Eleven of 16 Williams County livestock facilities have resolved their outstanding Ohio Department of Agriculture claims over illegal manure-management practices this year. Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Brian Baldridge, through an agency spokesman, told The Blade in an email recently that those facilities met deadlines for removing open manure stockpiles and creating better systems for handling the waste by their given Sept. 1 deadline. The state agriculture inspection ran parallel to one in the Edon-Montpelier area ordered by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. In that case, seven of 10 facilities were found to be in compliance by the Sept. 1 deadline. Inspectors from both the ODA and the Ohio EPA returned to that area shortly after Labor Day to do follow-up inspections. The Ohio EPA released its results first.
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