This article describes the pressure some free range duck farmers in Long Island are experience regarding complaints of water contamination downstream from their farms. Interestingly, as an aside in the article, the reporter mentions the potential for this contamination to be coming from suburban cesspools that overflow into the river as well. I can't imagine that these communities will put up the money to update their sewage system, so lets just watch them ruin yet another valuable asset (the sustainable family farm) until they "figure" what they really have to do to solve the problem of contaminated water (can we say urban planning!).
Read the full article here.
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