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FOND DU LAC - Fond du Lac County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve the purchase of property located at 848 S. Military Road for the purpose of relocating its Land and Water Conservation Department when it meets Tuesday. The $1 million purchase from Rademann Development LLC of the strip mall located near Fleet Farm and the roundabout at Military Road and South Pioneer Road will accommodate the department now located in a rental property at W6529 Forest Ave., according to Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel. The current building s primary tenant, the USDA s Natural Resources Conservation Service, needs more space, which would shrink the county conservation department s portion of the building that currently houses ten employees. ....
FOND DU LAC - A Malone dairy farm has been ordered by pay $60,000 for violating the state’s wastewater discharge laws. Redtail Ridge Dairy in northeast Fond du Lac County, owned by Joe and Diane Thome, must pay costs to remedy the adverse effects of polluted discharges to the tributaries of the Sheboygan River, including the cost of replacing fish or other wildlife destroyed by the discharge, according to the Wisconsin Attorney General s Office. The case was settled before it went to trial in the courtroom of Fond du Lac Circuit Court Judge Peter Grimm, who issued the fines earlier this month. Grimm found the dairy guilty of three violations: manure ponding on application site, manure runoff from site and manure discharge to waters through subsurface drains. ....