South Dakota’s House transportation Committee moved out HB 1184 (2018) that will move cow manure through new pipelines.
What’s the opposition to cow manure pipelines?
- opposition rooted in the new grant of eminent domain authority
- its expanding eminent domain to something that isn’t an utility & doens’t serve a public use
How would these poop pipelines work?
- pipelines of animal manure from one farmer
- would run through neighbors’ road ditches
- to bring fertilizer to farmed fields
What do supporters say?
- improves safety on rural roads
- reduces road wear onn rural roads
- 1 pork producer says he annually pumps 4.5 million gallons of animal waste, or enough to fill 700 semi trailers
Watertown Public Opinion |Â Piping livestock waste along highway ditches divides state legislators