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M.H. SCHMIDT, MD <br /> Box Elder Road#448 <br /> Marshall, Wisconsin 53559 • • <br /> 608-655-3591 <br /> July 16 , 1996 <br /> I am Dr. Mary H. Schmidt. I have lived in the rural Town of Medina <br /> for over 40 years. I grew up on a farm in Fond-du-Lac county. I <br /> know that farm animals die and get sick , and have to be put down. <br /> As a physician I am deeply concerned over the recent increase in <br /> infectious diseases. We have had a 58% increase since 1985 according <br /> to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) . Increasingly these represent <br /> infections resistant to antibiotics . Others , such as the cryptosporidium, <br /> are micro-organisms that are enclosed in a cyst which prevents <br /> disinfectants from killing them. A significant number of these organisms <br /> are spread by polluted ground water supplies . <br /> Our soils can absorb a certain amount of pathogenic organisms, but all <br /> soils have a limit to the amount they can absorb in order to prevent <br /> ground water pollution. <br /> I understand that the Marshall Deadstock can now spread up to 34,000 <br /> gall Cns of waste per day on a limited acreage. <br /> These wastes are hauled not only from local farmers in south central <br /> Wisconsin, but the trucks bring in dead stock from Illinois, Iowa and <br /> Minnesota. <br /> Already we are at risk for pollution of rivers, ponds and wells that <br /> are downstream from this operation. It seems that in the interest of <br /> Public Health that no further enlargement of this operations at its <br /> present location should be approved. <br /> It is much easier to prevent the spread of infection of epidemic <br /> proportion than it is to contain it once we have a serious outbreak. <br /> D <br /> JUL 181996 <br /> D.C. PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT <br /> ZONING DIVISION <br />