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CESSPOOLS OF SHAME-How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health

Diverse human-produced organic chemicals can enter surface and groundwater through human activities, including pesticide use and industrial processes, and as breakdown products of other chemicals (Carr and Neary 2008). Many of these pollutants, including pesticides and other non-metallic toxins, are used globally, persist in the environment, and can be transported long ranges to regions where they have never been produced (UNEP 2009). Organic contaminants (sometimes called “persistent organic pollutants”, or POPS), such as certain pesticides, are commonly found to be contaminating groundwater by leaching through the soil and surface waters through runoff from agricultural and urban landscapes. DDT, a pesticide. | CESSPOOLS OF SHAME How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health Author Robbin Marks The Earth s Best Defense Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network July 2001 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network wish to thank The McKnight Foundation The Pew Charitable Trusts Wallace Genetic Foundation Inc. and The Davis Family Trust for Clean Water for their support of our work on animal feedlot issues. NRDC gratefully acknowledges the support of its 500 000 members whose generosity helped make this report possible. We wish to thank the reviewers of this report Nancy Stoner Melanie Shepherdson Flynn and Emily Cousins. We also thank a number of individuals for their help with this report including Rolf Christen Kathy Cochran Rick Dove Scott Dye Pat Gallagher Nicolette Hahn Marlene Halverson Suzette Hafield Susan Heathcote Karen Hudson Julie Jansen Jack Martin and Neil Julian Savage. ABOUT NRDC NRDC is a nonprofit environmental organization with more than 500 000 members. Since 1970 our lawyers scientists and other environmental specialists have been working to protect the world s natural resources and improve the quality of the human environment. NRDC has offices in New York City Washington D.C. Los Angeles and San Francisco. ABOUT THE CLEAN WATER NETWORK The Clean Water Network is an alliance of over 1 000 organizations that endorse its platform paper the National Agenda for Clean Water. The Agenda outlines the need for strong clean water safeguards in order to protect public health and the environment. The Clean Water Network includes a variety of organizations representing environmentalists family farmers commercial fishermen recreational anglers surfers boaters faith communities environmental justice advocates tribes labor unions and civic associations. Production Supervisor Production Nancy Stoner Carol James Cover Artist Director of Communications Jenkins Page Alan Metrick