The number of hog lagoons at risk was updated from 80 to 110 at 4:16 p.m. Flood damage from Hurricane Florence is jeopardizing roughly 110 of the state’s 3,300 hog lagoons, but there is another route for waste to leave these farms: runoff from the sprayfields. Farmers routinely pump waste from the lagoons onto the ...
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