Sierra Club Event Calendar
November 23, 2009, Attend Communities on the Move at the Sun Prairie Library, 6:30- 8:00 p.m., 1350 Linnerud Dr, Sun Prairie. We want to bring the community together to discuss transportation choices and your vision for a transit system. Thislocal discussion will be a chance to share your experiences- good and bad- on mobility and transit and brainstorm ideas to expand transportation options that will also reduce greenhouse gases that are responsible for global warming. Volunteers with Sierrans on the Move, a subgroup Sierra Club John Muir Chapter’s Global Warming Solutions Team, will lead the discussion. Come join us! Please contact Liz Wessel for more information or to join a carpool at lizard59sc@yahoo.com or 238-9934 and sign up online at: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=122161
December 3, 2009, Public Informational Hearing on the proposed expansion (WPDES permit modification) for the Rosendale Dairy at 5 pm at the Royal Ridges, 1 Westgate Drive (just off W. Fond 
du Lac St. which is also known as Hwy 23/49), Ripon, WI 54971, for the purpose of giving all interested parties an opportunity to make a statement with respect to the permit action.
If permitted, this will become the largest Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO), or factory farm ever sited in Wisconsin. It will house 8,000 milking cows and 300 beef cattle on a very small area of land.
Please attend the public hearing, and voice your concerns about this operation.
Expanding the Rosendale CAFO:
- Threatens drinking water and wetland habitats by the volume of untreated manure- 75 million gallons per year- that will be spread on vulnerable land.
- Impacts air quality by emitting toxic hydrogen sulfide and ammonia
- Threatens water supplies with contamination by antibiotics and hormones.
- Puts area family farms in jeopardy by flooding the market with milk. When supply outpaces demand, the price per gallon drops precipitously.
If you are unable to attend the hearing, please send comments to elizabeth.spaethwerner@wisconsin.gov by December 10, 2009.