New Dairy Facility / Piatt County, Illinois

This operation began the planning efforts to build a new 4320 cow dairy facility with the first phase of construction having a 3500 cow capacity. The facility is located on approximately 90 acres.

Feldmann andamp; Associates and Maurer-Stutz, Inc. provided conceptual planning, engineering design, and construction phase services. Design included sand bedded free stalls, flush manure removal, a sand-sedimentation and reclamation basin, concrete reclaimed sand stacking pad, solids sediment basins, a two-stage lagoon, earthen embankments, reinforced concrete flush alleys, clay liner, gravity pipelines, recycle pumping station with force main, flush tanks/towers, clean water diversions, perimeter drainage for ground water interception, an emergency spillway, a secondary emergency containment area, and feed and commodity storage areas. Permits and approvals were acquired from the various state and local agencies.