Farmer fined after big manure spill

MARATHON COUNTY - An estimated one million gallons of manure spilled from a farm storage tank in Marathon County over the last year.

It seeped into wetlands that feed into the Little Eau Pleine River.

A county conservation official said the discharge came from the 120-cow, Willcome dairy farm.

Full story: WJFW

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