1999 BIG RIVER/ CLEAN WATER WEEK JUNE 10 - 15, 1999
Days Inn Premier Hotel
1201 K Street NW (K and 12 th Streets)
Washington, DC
Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign Training
Sierra MRCC, METF, with the Clean Water Network
Thursday, June 10, 1999
arrival and welcome: informal reception at hotel
Friday, June 11, 1999
7:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 Registration
9:00 MRCC Meeting: Susan Patton, Chair
12:00 Lunch provided: 1999 Big River/Clean Water Week:
Welcome: Susan Patton and Bill Redding
Floence Robinson (Devil's Swamp)
1:30 pm - Panel Discussion of Mississippi River Basin Issues (panel tba):
Includes overview of:
"Dead zone", navigation, TMDLs, toxics in the water and
environmental justice and health issues.
2:45 Break
3:00 and 4:00: Concurrent and repeating conservation training sessions:
a. "Dead zone"
b. Navigation
c. TMDLs and toxics in the water: PBTs
d. Environmental justice and health issues
6:00 - Reception
7:00 - Dinner provided: Speaker: Rick Dove, Neuse Riverkeeper: Who Is
Responsible ?
Saturday, June 12, 1999
Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign 1999
8:30 - Welcome and Opening Comments: Roy Hengerson and Hank Graddy
Introductions
9:00 Sierra Club :The Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign: Overview.
9:30 Dr. John E. Ikerd, Revolution, Row by Row
10:00 - The Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign -1999-2000
Clean Water and Safe Food - Family Farms, Not Factory Farms
How You Can Make A Difference: Panel: Ken Midkiff, Hank
Graddy et al
General introduction to the problems caused by factory
farms, and the Sierra Club response
12:00 - lunch provided: Kendall Thu: Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities
1:30 Plenary: Success Stories: The North Carolina Sierra Chapter Lobby
Work;
EPEC Tier I reports from CAFO and water quality chapters:
Oklahoma report,
Iowa report, Kentucky report, Mississippi report plus other EPEC
water quality chapters.
2:30 - Concurrent Conservation and Organization Training sessions. These
sessions will be
planned to respond to Chapter and group needs and may include
the following:
1. Tools to Fight CAFOs: Part I
2. How to Start Your Chapter/group Watershed Watch: Part I
3. How Your Food Decisions can save the World (and You !):
Part I
3:50 - Break
4:00 - Michael Sligh, RAFI USA, The Organic Rule Round I and II:
Reaching the Consumer
Scott Dye, Mo. Sierra, Examples: Citizen Monitoring and
Responding to Threats
6:00 - Dinner on your own
METF Dinner Meeting
EQST Dinner Meeting
Sunday, June 13, 1999
- Open time - prayer and reflection - (unless you have to go to a
meeting)
9:00 to 11:00 - EQST joint meeting with CAFOWG, METF and MRCC,
12:00 Lunch provided: John Ikerd: The Real Economics of Factory Livestock
1:00 - Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign 1999 (Two tracks: CAFOs and
Wetlands)
Track I: CAFOs: Intermediate Level Training: Plenary Session:
Clean Water Network representatives and Sierra Club lead plenary
session on
Factory farm permits
1. Different types of permits: public participation
opportunities
2. Permit elements: siting, setbacks, monitoring, public
access,
3. Comprehensive nutrient management plans
4. How to organize against a permit application at the local
level
5. Access to experts
6. The Litigation element of the Water Campaign
2:00 Panel: Maryland Contract Poultry Growers: Outreach to Farmers
3:00 break
3:15 Concurrent Sessions:Responding to needs, (cont), topics may cover:
1. Starting Your Chapter or Group Citizen Monitoring Program:
Part II
2. Your Food Decisions Can Save the World: Part II
Track II: Wetlands: Mobilizing Wetlands Activists: training from 1:00 to 4:30
4:30 Plenary: Panel and Discussion: Ross Vincent, Bob Bingaman: Campaign
Review and Commitments
5:30 Adjourn
Monday, June 14, 1999
Track I: Joint Meeting Sierra Club Water Campaign and Clean Water Network
Feedlot Workgroup Advanced Conservation Training
9:00 - 12:00: How to write and implement a good comprehensive nutrient
management plan
1. Meaning of agronomic rate
2. Phosphorous, the missing standard
3. Nitrogen, the other missing standard
4. Dealing with other pollutants
or
9:00 - 10:30: The practical details of a watershed watch citizen monitoring
program in your Chapter
10:45 - 12:00: The practical details of a consumer education campaign in your
Chapter
12:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:00 Where, how and when the public can get involved in factory farm
decisionmmaking at the state and national level (local level addressed on
Sunday)
1. State level: compare state permitting programs, state
technical committees, etc.
2. Compliance audit program - how to prepare and respond
3. National level: UNSAFO guidance, permitting and effluent
guideline regulations, legislation
Track II: Legislative issues concerning wetlands.
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Joint Meeting: Sierra Water Campaign and CWN Feedlot Workgroup
Continued conservation training and policy discussion: endgame discussion and
strategy
1:00 adjourn 1999 Big River/ Clean Water week
COME TO BIG RIVER/ CLEAN WATER WEEK
JUNE 11-15, 1999
WASHINGTON, DC
Help launch the Sierra Club's Clean Water Campaign to stop giant factory farms!
Big River Week 1999 will feature four days of training -- introductory,
intermediate, and advanced -- on how Sierra Club Chapters and Groups can
participate in the Sierra Club's major campaign to stop factory farms. Sierra
Club training (June 11-13) is followed by two days of advanced training with the
Clean Water Network.
Featured speakers include:
- Rick Dove, Riverkeeper, Neuse River (North Carolina)
- John Ikerd, University of Missouri agricultural economist
- Kendall Thu, University of Iowa, author of Pigs, Politics and Rural
Communities
Scholarships for those interested in training on factory farm issues are
available from the Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign - contact Ed Hopkins at
202-675-7908 or email ed.hopkins@ sierraclub.org.
Big River Week will take place at Days Inn Premier Hotel, 1201 K Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: (202) 842-1020. The Clean Water Network has
reserved a block of rooms at the hotel at a rate of $119 per night (tax
additional). Contact the hotel directly for reservations - call soon, rooms are
limited. The hotel is in downtown Washington, close to the Metro Center metro
stop.
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BIG RIVER WEEK 1999 REGISTRATION FORM - RETURN BY MAY 10
Mail this registration (and a check for $50 payable to Midwest MRCC) to Judy
Hofrichter Midwest MRCC, 214 North Henry Street, Suite 203, Madison, Wisconsin
53703. If you want to stay for advanced training co-sponsored by the Clean
Water Network on June 14-15, add $20 for each day.
Name __________________________________________________________
Organization ____________________________________________________
Address _________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
City State Zip
________________________________________________________________ Phone
Fax Email
BIG RIVER/ CLEAN WATER WEEK TRAINING NEEDS SURVEY
Big River/ Clean Water Week will provide Chapters and Groups with training to
participate in the Sierra Club's Water Campaign to stop giant factory farms
(called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, CAFOs). We need your help to
design these training sessions to meet your needs. Please check all of the
topics that you would like to learn more about. If we omitted a subject that
interests you, write it in.
___ What's wrong with CAFOs?
___ Winning county and state moratoria on CAFOs
___ The elements of a good state CAFO regulatory program; state
legislation/ regulations/; ballot initiatives that we have won
___ How to create alliances with farm groups and others
___ How to establish a citizen water monitoring program to watchdog CAFOs
___ Litigation strategies for CAFOs
___ How to stop a CAFO from coming to a place near you
___ Federal requirements for CAFOs; EPA and USDA's new strategy for
CAFOs
___ What needs to be included in a comprehensive nutrient management plan
___ Environmentally acceptable methods of livestock production
___ What should a CAFO permit include?
___ How to increase consumer opposition to CAFO-produced meat and
increase demand for organic meat
___ CAFO's secret drug problem: overuse of antibiotics at CAFOs
___ Political accountability: increasing the visibility of CAFOs as an
electoral issue
___ Corporate subsidies for CAFOs
I would like to learn more about a topic not listed above (please describe)
Tell us about yourself and your Chapter/Group involvement with CAFO/ citizen
water monitoring issues:
___ I am new to CAFO issues
___ I have done some work on CAFOs
___ I know a lot about CAFOs
___ My chapter/group actively works on CAFOs
___ My state/area has a CAFO problem. Our Chapter/Group wants to take on
the issue, but has not yet.
The CAFO problem in my state is (circle one): _severe_ _moderate_ _not too
bad_
I think people in my state are (circle one): _very aware_ _moderately aware_
_ignorant about_ CAFOs
___ I don't know if we have a CAFO problem
Yes/No/Don't know (circle one) - There is a citizens water quality monitoring
program in my state
Yes/No/Don't know (circle one) - My Sierra Club Chapter participates in this
water monitoring program
Briefly describe how the data generated by the water monitoring program are
used. Are they being gathered and used in connection with CAFOs?
Yes/No/Don't know (circle one) - There is a need for additional water quality
data in my state to document CAFO problems
Yes/No (circle one) -My Sierra Club Chapter might be interested in participating
in a citizens water monitoring program designed to document CAFO pollution
Name __________________________________________________________
Organization ____________________________________________________
Address _________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
City State Zip
________________________________________________________________
Phone Fax Email
___ I would like to be considered for scholarship assistance to come to Big
River/Clean Water Week. Please contact me. (Note that assistance is available
only to those who plan to take part in Sierra Club's CAFO campaign.)
Thanks for responding to this survey. Please send the completed form to Ed
Hopkins. Sierra Club, 408 C Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. Fax:
202-547-6009.
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