The Dodge County Zoning and Planning Commission met Wednesday to discuss the stockpiling of biomass after a waste storage site brought an overwhelming smell and abundance of flies to Scribner.
“What we’re trying to do is come up with some guidelines to what they need to do in order to bring that stuff into Dodge County, how long they can stockpile it, whether or not a conditional use permit should be required,” Zoning Administrator Jean Andrews said.
Multiple residents of Scribner voiced their concern about a waste storage site used by Environmental Land Management LLC during a Dodge County Board of Supervisors meeting on Dec. 2, 2020.
“This is horrific,” resident Lisa Uehling Manderson said at the meeting. “It smells like somebody just dumped their sewage right up there.”
ELM had used a site southeast of Scribner to stockpile soil conditioner and fertilizer food byproducts for farmers in need for the last five years.
“As the warm weather came along, the smell of this stuff just when it got wet, if it rained and it got wet, then it really smelled,” Andrews said. “And if the wind was in the right direction, since Scribner is a little over four miles from the Scribner Airbase, you could smell it.”
After meeting again on Dec. 16, 2020, the county board imposed a 90-day moratorium on the stockpiling of non-livestock waste. The issue then went to the planning commission in January.
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