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42 THE RURAL VOICE
ADVICE
SYSTEMS FOR
STORING MANURE
Farmers have been especially inter-
ested in manure storage facilities this
year because of the financial assistance
offered through the Ontario Soil Con-
servation and Environmental Protection
Assistance Program (OSCEPAP) II.
The program has emphasized not
only storage systems with zero runoff,
but livestock operations with no runoff
of contaminated water. For a swine
operation, the procedure is straightfor-
ward. You simply build a tank to hold
everything for 200 days and you have
met the grant requirements.
On beef and dairy farms, manure is
often stacked on a pad. Farmers who
have applied for the grant have found
out that they must store at least the
equivalent of a foot of water from the
pad in a separate tank or earthen holding
pond. This is called a runoff storage.
It's likely that the runoff from any
paved yard used to confine cattle must
be stored as well. Here again the mini-
mum amount is a foot of depth or one
cubic foot for every square foot of yard.
Dairy farms have milkhouse wash
water to contend with too. OSCEPAP II
helps to finance the storage or disposal
of this water. In most cases, the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture is recommend-
ing that the water be stored in the same
way as runoff water or liquid manure. In
200 days, a medium-sized dairy farm
will produce 5,000 cubic feet (about
30,000 gallons) of wash water.
To give you an idea of the size of
runoff storage you might consider, take
as an example both square earthen
ponds 8 feet deep with 2:1 side slopes
and circular tanks 8 feet deep.
A earth storage 50 feet square holds
approximately 10,000 cubic feet and has
usable space for 6,000 cubic feet of
runoff after direct precipitation of 1 1/2
feet. A tank 35 feet in diameter with the
same depth has about the same usable
volume. This size of storage will serve
a manure pad of 6,000 square feet or an
equal -sized combination of manure pad
and cattle yard.
An earthen storage 60 feet square or
a comparable tank 50 feet in diameter
will provide the minimum needed run-
off storage for a medium-sized dairy
(cont'd)