Preventing water entering your slurry tank
Regardless of any slopes, minimising the area of the yard through which cows manoeuvre is also worth doing.
Measures to avoid water entering slurry storage tanks were listed by Kilkenny-based Teagasc dairy advisor Nigel Kennington in a recent edition of the Environmental Edge podcast.
“Something as simple as roof chutes, if there’s a leak in a chute, the water can flow into the tank and you’d be surprised, with some of the deluges of rain, you could put a foot of water in a tank in a downpour if your chutes are wrong. Just having them hanging right and having the chutes big enough, sometimes the chutes aren’t wide enough to take the volume of water off the roofs,” Nigel said.
