Burning Manure Pile in Nebraska Goes Out

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Burning Manure Pile in Nebraska Goes Out

MILFORD, Neb. - It took nearly four months, but to the relief of neighbors miles around, a burning manure pile has been extinguished.

David Dickinson, owner and manager of Midwest Feeding Co., said Wednesday that several weeks of pulling the 2,000-ton pile apart proved effective by late last week. "We got far enough through it, that it quit," Dickinson said. Dickinson's feedlot, about 20 miles west of Lincoln, takes in as many as 12,000 cows at a time from farmers and ranchers and fattens them for market. Byproducts from the massive operation resulted in a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide. Heat from the decomposing manure deep inside the pile is believed to have eventually ignited the manure. The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality told Dickinson that his smoldering dung pile violated clean-air laws and it worked with him as tried to extinguish it. Huge feedlots have become commonplace, and dung fires have occurred around the country. Dickinson said his pile may have been ignited in part because of glass clippings his feedlot had been accepting from the city of Milford. The clippings could be more combustible and he plans to stop accepting them, Dickinson said.
 

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Hand of Evil said:
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality told Dickinson that his smoldering dung pile violated clean-air laws...
Yeah, I've been told the same thing by my wife, usually followed by, "Light a candle in there!"

:eek:
 

I found the coal mines that have been burning for 30 or 40 years now to be a good story idea for a game. I believe the real life mines are in W. Virginia, and last I heard they are still burning.
 

There are also tire fires that have been burning for years. One in Nebraska, even, if I remember correctly. Not just bad smell, but toxic fumes, too! Wheeee!!!!!!
 


Treebore said:
I found the coal mines that have been burning for 30 or 40 years now to be a good story idea for a game. I believe the real life mines are in W. Virginia, and last I heard they are still burning.
There's one in Centralia, PA that's been going since '62.
 

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