Spilled manure cleanup continues near dairy farm

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MONTEREY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — State officials say cleanup work continues at a southwestern Michigan dairy farm where liquid manure leaked from an open-air lagoon and spread into a creek and a river.

The Michigan Department of Environmental quality says workers at the Schaendorf farm are pumping manure-laden water from a country drainage ditch that flows into Bear Creek and returning it to the storage structure.

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