Jill Schramm/MDN Marty Haroldson, director of the Division of Water Quality in the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, addresses questions at the Wednesday, Nov. 5, meeting of the Pierce County Planning and Zoning Board as members of the public listen from the seats in the Pierce County courtroom in Rugby.

After more than two hours of testimony that largely went against a proposed commercial swine operation, the Pierce County Planning and Zoning Board voted 6-0 Wednesday, Nov. 5, to recommend the county commission deny the application of Dakota SAO.

The additional testimony came on top of two hours of previous testimony on the hog farm Oct. 16.

A key piece of information that helped sway the board was a map showing Hurricane Lake within a mile of the proposed hog operation

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