Supervisors recommend approval on Palermo Township hog site

Just weeks after giving Heath Myers and Joe Dier of Clearview Farms the go-ahead to construct a two-building hog site near the Grundy-Tama County line, the board of supervisors voted unanimously on Monday morning to recommend the approval of a similar site under the same management nearby in Palermo Township between Grundy Center and Beaman.
           
According to Sanitarian Carie Sager, the project will consist of two new finisher buildings with 2,490 heads, and it scored 475 points in the Master Matrix (the minimum for approval is 440). Jean Osgood, the resident nearest to the proposed confinement, has signed an easement agreement, and all of the other surrounding homes are at least 1,875 feet away. Sager added that two landowners had raised concerns about drainage tile running through the area, and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) inspectors discovered a drainage well nearby, which has since been plugged.
           
The board eventually voted 4-0 (Chuck Bakker was absent) to recommend approval to the DNR. 
 
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