A dairy operation in Sparta is looking at a six-figure fine after state investigators say the owner allowed his pollution permit to expire.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice yesterday fined Mlsna Dairy Supply just under 210 thousand-dollars for allowing their Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit to expire in 2015. The dairy never replaced it. There’s no word of any manure spills from the dairy, but state investigators say the dairy did make several pollution-containment improvements without state approval. The fine covers the two-thousand-501 days when the dairy didn’t have the proper pollution paperwork
