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BROOKSTON — The competing interests of a pork producer and advocates of outdoor education are wrapped up in a rezoning request pending before the White County commissioners.
John Erickson wants to build a concentrated animal feeding operation or CAFO that would include two barns, each with a self-contained concrete tank to store liquid manure from 4,620 pigs per barn.
Erickson’s barns would be located on a 7-acre tract of land on the west side of Springboro Road, and north of White county road 1000 south.
The 9,240 pigs would be one-half mile from the 600-acre YMCA Camp Tecumseh located on the east side of Springboro Road.
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