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Poultry Litter Management and Carcass Disposal Management
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__________ Ranking total from previous page |
divided by | ___________ number of areas ranked (14 if ranked all) |
equals | __________ | * |
*Carry your answer out to one decimal
place.
Example:
24 ÷ 7 = 3.43
Use 3.4
| 3.6 - 4.0 = low risk | 1.6 - 2.5 = moderate to high risk |
| 2.6 - 3.5 = low to moderate risk | 1.0 - 1.5 = high risk |
This ranking gives you an idea of how your poultry litter management and carcass disposal practices, as a whole, might be affecting your drinking water. This ranking should serve only as a very general guide, not a precise diagnosis. Because it represents an averaging of many individual rankings, it can overlook any individual rankings (such as 1's or 2's) that should be of concern. (Step 2 will focus on individually ranked activities of concern.)
Enter your boxed poultry litter management and carcass disposal ranking in the appropriate place in the table on the front of worksheet #13. Later you will compare this risk ranking with other farmstead management rankings. Worksheet #13 will help you determine your farmstead's site conditions (soil type, soil depth, and bedrock characteristics), and worksheet #13 will show you how these site conditions affect your risk rankings.
Step 2: Evaluate your rankings for individual activities based on the following.
4's Best: low-risk practices
3's Provide reasonable groundwater protection: low- to moderate-risk practices
2's Possibly inadequate protection: moderate- to high-risk practices
1's Inadequate protection with relatively high groundwater contamination risk: high-risk practices
| Regardless of your overall risk ranking, any individual rankings of "1" require immediate attention. You can take care of some of the concerns right away; others could be major or costly projects, requiring planning and prioritizing before you take action. |
Find any activities that you identified as 1's and list them under High-Risk Activities in worksheet #13.
Step 3: Read
Fact Sheet #8, Improving Poultry
Litter Management and Carcass Disposal, and give some thought to how
you might modify your farmstead practices to better protect your drinking water.
Refer to the Reference Organizations on page 6 for further information and
assistance.
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