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COMPOST FACILITY: This is a 60,000 square foot enclosed building with concrete foundations and floors. This building houses one compost machine and 4 rows/pits of compost. Approximately 32 cubic yards of manure and carbon are dumped into the east side of this facility daily. It will take approximately 28 to 30 days to complete a load of compost. Approximately 23 cubic yards of compost will be completed per day. The composting house will have the capability to process 10 tons of chicken manure per pit per day and there are 4 pits. Everyday the machine moves the compost 7 feet. They are in the process of researching and purchasing another composting machine for the facility. Completed compost will be held on a concrete slab until the laboratory analysis is run and it can be sold. SKS is researching various bagging machines to bag the finished product. WASTE STORAGE PONDS: There are several storage ponds on-site. There are small storage ponds between each of the Woody's for collection of rain runoff. There is a storage pond west of the processing plant for wash water and rain runoff from the processing plant. The large manure storage pond is by the bunker, this is where all the liquefied manure from the Honen's was stored. Previously a thin layer of water was applied to the surface of the manure in the pond to reduce flies and odors. Since the Honen's are no longer in use this manure pond is in the process of having the solids removed and it will then be covered or filled in with clean fill dirt. There is a small pond in what was historically utilized as the drying field. This pond was utilized to capture any seepage and/or runoff that may occur while drying out the manure. The dry field was utilized to spread a thin layer of poultry manure on. This allowed the manure to dry out rapidly reducing odors and flies. The field is level and sloped slightly towards the catch pond. This field was only utilized to dry out the manure, it was then recollected and disposed of. RESIDENCES: There are 7 residences or employee housing on-site. They consist of trailer homes, modular homes, and stick homes at various locations throughout the S.K.S. property. Each residence does not have it's own well or septic. WELLS; There are 4 domestic wells on-site. They provide fresh water to the residences, poultry houses, and processing plant. The wells are within the poultry operation and pipelines transport water around the operation and to the residences.. DIRT ROADS: The dirt roads are watered periodically during the summer months to reduce the dust.