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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Miller</p>           FORT MADISON, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced on Monday that a Lee County judge has penalized a Wever hog-feeding operation for alleged water pollution and animal feeding operation violations.<br /> <br />District Judge Cynthia H. Danielson ordered Pieper Inc. to pay an $18,000 penalty. Danielson also ordered the company to comply with state manure management and water control laws. <br /><br />Miller filed an environmental enforcement lawsuit in May 2010 alleging that Pieper Inc., a large swine confinement operation in Lee County, had repeated animal feeding and water pollution operation violations.<br /><br />Pieper admitted that two employees without proper certification had land-applied manure on a field at the Pieper operation with an irrigation gun in March 2009. This caused manure to run off the field into a drainage ditch. In addition, Pieper admitted that it failed to submit a required complete manure management plan for the facility despite numerous reminders from the Department of Natural Resources. <br /><br />Pieper Inc. was the subject of environmental enforcement administrative orders issued by the DNR in 1978, 1991 and 2006 for multiple confinement feeding operation violations.<br /><br />The Pieper Inc. operation consists of a 7,100 head gestation, finishing and farrowing operation as well as a 1,300 head nursery operation contained in 10 buildings. Manure storage is located in below-building pits and a large slurry tank."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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