Field Office Compliance - Field Activity: Staff Action ID - 142585

Chamness Technolgy, Inc - 310982346

24820 160TH ST. Eddyville, IA 50034

Wapello County

FO 6

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3/5/2020	Also see Complaint ID 27936 - Compost Land-Application Site (Randy VanKooten).	BILL GIBBONS
3/4/2020	The person who farms these fields is Randy VanKooten (Cell Phone No. 641-891-4096). I spoke to Randy VanKooten on September 18, 2019 when we received a complaint about the stockpiled compost (Complaint ID 27440). We discussed the plastic (pieces of plastic bags) that was mixed in with the compost material and I warned him about the plastic pieces causing a litter problem and that I expected him to pick up any foreign material while it was stockpiled and when it was land-applied. I called Randy VanKooten on March 3, 2020 and asked him if he was the one who land-applied the compost material. He said he was. I told Randy there were pieces of plastic bags (litter) all over the fields where he land-applied the compost material and reminded him about our conversation on September 18, 2019. I told Randy I expected him to clean up all of the plastic. Randy said he planned on picking up all of the plastic pieces on the fields. I asked him if would be doing it in the next week or two. He said in three weeks he would go out to the fields and clean up all of the plastic pieces. I told Randy he needed him to call me when the job was done so I could come out for a follow up visit.	BILL GIBBONS
3/4/2020	On March 3, 2020 Eric Dursky and I looked at fields where the material was land-applied. Where 200th Street (east/west gravel road) intersects Hwy. 63 there was a field on the west side of Hwy 63 and a field on the east side of Hwy 63 (on the south side of 200th Street) where the material had been land-applied. There was litter, primarily pieces of plastic trash bags, scattered across the fields where the compost material had been land-applied. When the compost material was brought from Chamness and stockpiled last fall the plastic material was mixed in with the compost. There was another field at the intersection of 193rd Street and Hwy. 63 on the east side of Hwy. 63 and north side of 193rd Street. The situation was the same with pieces of plastic trash bags scattered all over the field. Eric Dursky showed me where the material had been stockpiled at that location. It was next to the bank of a water source. Eric said he had them put some absorbent material between the compost pile(s) and the water source to prevent runoff of compost material into the water source.	BILL GIBBONS
3/4/2020	Correction to Previous Entry - Eric Dursky called me on March 2, 2020.	BILL GIBBONS
3/4/2020	On March 2, 2019 I received a call from Eric Dursky (Mahaska County Env. Health). He wanted me to look at fields just north of Oskaloosa and the Skunk River on Hwy. 63 where Randy VanKooten land-applied compost material from Chamness that was stockpiled there last fall (Fall 2019). Eric said there was litter all over the fields where he land-applied the material, primarily plastic trash bags.	BILL GIBBONS

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