Other amendments to ordinance:

Published 2:02 pm Thursday, August 25, 2016

• Each facility is required to have a dry stack house for dry composting poultry manure. Stack houses cannot be located closer than 100 feet from any drinking well. Stack houses must have concrete floors, be covered from exposure to rain and sunlight, and capable of monitoring internal temperature. Manure cannot exceed seven feet in depth when stored and cannot exceed a temperature of 180 degrees.

• Each facility must have an incinerator to burn and destroy dead animals and incinerator must have secondary combustion chamber.

• Each facility must have a 30-foot-wide grass buffer, within 100 feet of all facilities, animal houses, stack houses, incinerators and other regulated buildings. Buffer must be maintained as long as facility is in operation.