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Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Dairy cattle lounge in a field near St. Henry recently. The manure produced by the huge number of livestock operations in the Grand Lake Watershed has come under scrutiny as officials decide what to do about the lake's toxic algae.

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What to do with the poo

GRAND LAKE - 20,600 beef and dairy cattle.

80,000 hogs.

168,000 turkeys.

3.75 million chickens.

629,504 tons of manure each year.

That's the Grand Lake Watershed. [More]

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