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I am not a specialist in environmental issues, and perhaps this is the wrong forum to bring up the matter? But i have just watch a certain local TV news channel showing local dairy farmers dumping what appears to be thousends of gallons of milk into the local drainage system. Milk is a major pollutant in water is it not? surley a breach of the EPA? Am i well off the mark or what?
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Like your self I believe milk is a serious environmental polutant. A friend of mind who is a dairy farmer has told me in the past the the EA look on milk as a worst polutant than slurry and tipping it in to open drainage is a strict taboo. He has always put excess milk in the 500k liter slurry tank and mixed it well in.
If milk gets in to a water course it will deoxygenate the water very quickly and kill of any wild life living there.
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Milk does have a very high BOD, more than twice that of slurry from memory. There is also the issue of the fat content and resultant problems with drains. It is therefore something that does need a managed disposal where significant volumes are involved. There is plenty of guidance out there. This example being one.
http://www.ni-environment.gov.uk/ppg17.pdf
If indeed the farmer was simply tipping large volumes of his milk into the local watercourse then perhaps.....on the other hand if this was on a dairy farm he may just have been tipping into his local disposal systems which he should have for his dairy operations anyway ( I didn't see the news item)
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1 litre of milk will remove the oxygen content of 10 tonnes of fresh water (10M3).
The fact that the milk has a high BOD (biological oxgen demand) all the drains will be going direct to some kind of buffer - holding tank to dispose of through the proper processes. It will not be going direct to water courses.
I did see the article and he seemed to be dumping from a 1 tonne IBC?
David
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Does this mean we should not be drinking milk? By the sound of it it's quite a hazardous liquid?
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Certainly not Chris - a little of what you fancy does you good.
A little red wine is good for the heart - allegedly etc
That is why you get married - to reduce the amount of wild oats that you consume as they are allegedly good for you but not too much lol.
Does anyone know a nice bacon slicer lol?
David
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david H wrote:Certainly not Chris - a little of what you fancy does you good.
A little red wine is good for the heart - allegedly etc
That is why you get married - to reduce the amount of wild oats that you consume as they are allegedly good for you but not too much lol.
Does anyone know a nice bacon slicer lol?
David
David,
You have me at a loss about the institution of wedlock and consumption of wild oats.
I thought it was the sowing of wild oats that marraige curtailed?? ......mmmm maybe thats what went wrong.
I need another potion!
wizard
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Quite correct wizard - but one must reap what one sows.
And what about the fact that a marraige must go through consumptation to be valid? lol
David
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