Read the full article by Alaina Mencinger (Santa Fe New Mexican).
“The owner of a Clovis dairy said he’s been in ‘survival mode’ since a plume of forever chemicals was found impacting his cows in 2018.
After finding that his cows’ milk was contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, Art Schaap was forced to euthanize roughly 4,000 cows.
Now, eight years later, his Curry County property is still in limbo as Schaap awaits mitigation or cleanup.
Schaap has been in the dairy business for almost 40 years and a neighbor of Cannon Air Force Base for more than three decades. He remembers seeing series of planes fly over his home, shaking the structure as the engines were tested, as he set up Highland Dairy in 1992. Not everybody likes being neighbors with a dairy, Schaap said, as cows mean flies and manure.
But the base didn’t seem to mind, and, for years, they were ‘good neighbors’ to Schaap and his wife, he said.”…