Dept. of Natural Resources: Monitoring manure spill in Marathon County

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is responding to a manure spill near the village of Athens in Marathon County.  On Tuesday, May 5, the DNR was notified of manure discharging from a waste storage structure at Deercreek Holsteins LLC, a permitted Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, to a tributary to Black Creek. The cause of the discharge was a failed...