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EPA vastly overestimates poultry pollution: study
Story Date: 5/16/2013
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 5/15/13
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency vastly overstates the poultry industry’s contribution to pollution in Delmarva, a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Delaware concluded, according to a report by the Delaware News Journal.
The study could force changes to cleanup efforts in the poultry-rich region, the newspaper reports.
James Glancey, a professor at UD’s Bioresources Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments, is quoted as saying the multi-state study involving thousands of manure testes discovered that actual nitrogen levels in poultry-house manure are 55 percent lower than EPA’s decades-old, lab-based standards.
The study could prompt a formal proposal as early as next month for revisions to the Chesapeake Bay Program’s six-state pollution forecasting model, which steers a federally supported attempt to improve the bay’s health and ecosystems and assign cleanup goals.
“I think this is a precedent-setting kind of thing, but we’re not quite sure how it’s going to propagate through the United States,” Glancey was quoted as saying after briefing the findings at the state Department of Agriculture. “Everyone’s watching it, there’s no doubt about it.”
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