GRAND FORKS — Madeline Luke, a volunteer with the Dakota Resource Council, urged the Red River Basin Commission board during a Thursday meeting to strengthen water quality monitoring for the Red River and its tributaries in light of two large dairy projects expected to be built less than 2 miles from the river.

The two projects, proposed by Minnesota-based Riverview LLP, received permits in recent months. The 25,000-head site — which Luke claims is larger than any previous Riverview project — will be located in Herberg Township, near Hillsboro. The smaller project, with 12,500 cows, will be located in Abercrombie, North Dakota. With the establishment of these dairies, an anticipated 300 million gallons of animal waste will be stored in lagoons less than 2 miles away from the Red River, ac

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