Our issue of most concern: Poultry Waste Pollution
Poultry house proliferation in spring creek watershed
Spring Creek is at a tipping point. The recent dense concentration of 219 mega poultry houses, many within the Spring Creek watershed, is having an impact. We are alarmed.
Ours is a small watershed; it cannot absorb a large amount of excess nutrients.
If you have traveled US Highway 412 between Locust Grove, OK, and Fayetteville, AR, you will have seen poultry house after poultry house that each holds 50,000 birds at a time. These birds produce tons of litter that affect our waters.
We need your help
The board is raising money to pay for environmental lawyers to make sure the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture properly regulates the enormous amounts of poultry waste generated by these mega poultry facilities so that it doesn't pollute Spring Creek or any state waters.
What will we lose if we lose Spring Creek?