Can I safely dispose of mortalities?
Mortality storage, composting and burial sites should all be reviewed for potential connections to surface water with Topographic Maps and for possibly location in a Nebraska flood plains. The same maps used for evaluating manure storage will work for this mortality sites. Sites connected to surface waters or located in flood plains should be eliminated from consideration.
If mortality is to be buried, reviewing of local sites soils with USDA’s Web Soil Survey following the same procedure for a preliminary review as for manure storage is recommended. Burial sites with highly permeable soils or shallow water tables should be dropped from consideration.
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