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A person may stockpile dry bedded manure, subject to all of the following:
1. a. The person shall not stockpile the dry bedded manure within the following distances
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to a designated area unless the dry manure is maintained in a manner that will not allow
precipitation-induced runoff to drain from the dry bedded manure to the designated area:
(1)Four hundred feet from a designated area other than a high-quality water resource.
(2)Eight hundred feet from a high-quality water resource.
b. The person shall not stockpile dry bedded manure within two hundred feet from a
terrace tile inlet or surface tile inlet unless the dry bedded manure is maintained in a manner
that will not allow precipitation-induced runoff to drain from the dry bedded
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A person may stockpile dry bedded manure, subject to all of the following:
1. a. The person shall not stockpile the dry bedded manure within the following distances
5 DRY BEDDED CONFINEMENT FEEDING OPERATIONS, §459B.402
to a designated area unless the dry manure is maintained in a manner that will not allow
precipitation-induced runoff to drain from the dry bedded manure to the designated area:
(1) Four hundred feet from a designated area other than a high-quality water resource.
(2) Eight hundred feet from a high-quality water resource.
b. The person shall not stockpile dry bedded manure within two hundred feet from a
terrace tile inlet or surface tile inlet unless the dry bedded manure is maintained in a manner
that will not allow precipitation-induced runoff to drain from the dry bedded manure to the
terrace tile inlet or surface tile inlet.
c. The person shall not stockpile dry bedded manure in a grassed waterway, where water
pools on the soil surface, or in any location where surface water will enter the stockpiled dry
bedded manure.
d. The person shall not stockpile dry bedded manure on land having a slope of more
than three percent unless methods, structures, or practices are implemented to contain
the stockpiled dry bedded manure, including but not limited to using hay bales, silt
fences, temporary earthen berms, or other effective measures, and to prevent or diminish
precipitation-induced runoff from the stockpiled dry bedded manure.
e. The person shall not stockpile dry bedded manure on karst terrain or in an alluvial
aquifer area unless the person complies with all of the following:
(1) Thepersonmuststockpilethedrybeddedmanureatalocationwherethereisavertical
separation distance of at least five feet between the bottom of the stockpiled dry manure and
the underlying limestone, dolomite, or other soluble rock in karst terrain or the underlying
sand and gravel aquifer in an alluvial aquifer area.
(2) The dry bedded manure must be stockpiled on reinforced concrete at least five inches
thick.
2. The person shall remove the stockpiled dry bedded manure and apply it in accordance
with the provisions of chapter 459, including but not limited to section 459.311, within six
months after the dry bedded manure is stockpiled.