The North Dakota Department of Health is responsible for regulating animal feeding operations. Waters of the state include lakes, rivers, streams, sloughs, gullies, etc. Your application will need to outline what steps you will take to ensure minimum environmental impact. Bear in mind that providing more space per head than is necessary makes the task of runoff control more difficult. Sizing pens and barns.
Manure is easier to handle scraped up as a solid than as a sludge or liquid from a storage pond.
Pens should slope away from the feed bunk and roadway. Alternatively, a settling basin can be constructed. Soil Type Soil types should match the requirements of three broad activities within the feeding operation. Pen surfaces and roadways. Locate pens and roadways on a stable, compacted, well drained site.