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4/10/85 D R A F T Town of Cottage Grove Zoning Petition 3376 Based on several meetings with the applicant, neighboring land owners , plus { county and state professional staff, the Town of Cottage Grove Planning Committee recommends: A. Conditional rezoning to the A-B Agriculture Business District on the condition that the only permissible uses shall be those now established (silage storage and sales , and ammonia tank). The required covenant binding the property must be recorded before the zoning change will become effective. B. The following conditions of operation must be met: 1 . All areas where corn silage is stockpiled must be covered with an impervious surface such as asphalt or concrete. The edges must be raised to catch the leachate, and the surface sloped to the collection system. All construction must meet or exceed U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service recommendations. The size of the operation will be limited to tons of silage per year. 2. The leachate presently ponded in the low area east of the silage storage site shall be removed as completely as possible and knifed-in as per item 4 below. 3. The future leachate from the silage storage area must be collected and temporarily stored in an impervious retention pond or tank. The system must be constructed in accordance- with the recommendations of, the USDA Soil Conservation Service and/or the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. 4. The owner must remove the leachate from the retention pond frequently enough to prevent it from becoming anaerobic (septic) . (This could mean weekly removal in warm weather. ) The leachate must be knifed-in on suitable agricultural land. The rate of the application shall be based on the nitrogen uptake of the crop to be grown per the analyses and recommendations of the Department of Natural Resources , Soil Conservation Service andyor UW-Extension. 5. The owner must install at least 3 test wells to monitor ground- water conditions as a safeguard should any of the systems' lining fail . The wells shall be located and constructed to specifications of the Dane County Public Health Department. There shall be a weekly monitoring of these wells by on-site visits of Health Department staff or submission of samples to the Health Department.