IN5A Sample Clauses

IN5A. The Indiana dairy consisted of three barns, a feed storage area, special needs barn, milking parlor, an office and tool and repair shops (Figure 2-1). Construction of the dairy was completed in 2002. The farm has a capacity of 2,600 cows. Manure was vacuumed from the lactating cow barns and special needs barn every 12 hrs and placed in lagoons near the barns. Manure was flushed from the holding area and milking parlor every half hour. Manure from the barns was scraped into pits that are located at the end of each barn (Figure 2-1). A small fraction of scraped waste was held in a slurry tank. The wastewater (flush) from the holding area and milking parlor was transferred into a rectangular settling lagoon south of the road then into the waste lagoon south of the road. The inlet to the lagoon was located at its north end. The clay-lined waste lagoon was 85 m (280 ft) wide and 116 m (380 ft) long, and is oriented north to south. At maximum capacity, the liquid depth was 5 m (16 ft) with a surface area of 9,884 m2 (106,400 ft2) and volume of 48,200 m3 (1,702,400 ft3). Xxxxxx had never been removed from the lagoon.