"I saw numerous swine lagoons that had been completely inundated and overtopped by flood waters," he says. "I saw two lagoons that had failed altogether and emptied their contents entirely into ...

Because of the storm, at least 77 lagoons in the state have either released pig waste into the environment or are at imminent risk of doing so, according to data issued Tuesday by the North ...

Hog or swine lagoons are human-made pits or dugouts that store animal waste. The lagoons are meant to help reduce pollution, and the the North Carolina Pork Council says it’s “rare” for ...

As of Thursday, four other lagoons have structural damage. Hog or swine lagoons are human-made pits or dugouts that store animal waste. The lagoons are meant to help reduce pollution, and the the ...

They show flooded poultry barns and "lagoons" filled with swine manure, spilling animal waste into nearby waterways. Sponsor Message According to the two groups, the flood waters partially ...

“So you could either get a Learjet for your company, or you could cover lagoons.” He also introduced an anaerobic digester system, which converts the methane sequestered by covering swine ...

Most of the state’s hog farms – and swine – are in the Cape Fear River watershed. Environmentalists highlight an Onslow County lagoon spill in 1995 that sent 25 million gallons of pink hog ...

These houses have slats in the floor that allow swine excrement to fall into troughs below, from which it is pumped into malodorous lagoons just outside the structures. And not 8 feet from the ...

A pig stands on the roof of a car to escape ... The remaining waste is piped to two overflow lagoons that—unlike most lagoons in the state—are topped with green plastic coverings.

The factory pig farms in Missouri turned life upside down ... The technology involves covering the enormous lagoons with heavy-duty tarps that trap the methane as it rises from the stagnant ...