Contents Why Give Your Farm Petroleum Tanks A Regular Check-up? When and Where Agenda Designing your own brochure

Why Give Your Farm Petroleum Tanks A Regular Check-up?

Keep current with the law

In the past few years many of the health and safety state codes have changed.

Protect your family's health

Petroleum products contain benzene, xylene and toluene which are flammable and toxic.

Protect your drinking water

Small leaks or spills may be enough to severely contaminate your well water even though you can't see or smell it in your drinking water.

Protect your biggest investment...your farm

Prevention of leaks or spills is much more cost effective than clean up of contaminated soil or groundwater.

When and Where

Tuesday, August 27, 1996
1:00 to 3:00 pm

Jim Attoe Farm
Attoe Drive Poynette
(2 miles north of N. Leeds on Hwy 22)

Agenda

1:00PM Start

 

TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED

• Welcome
• Farm Fuel Tanks - why they need a regular check-up
• What are current regulations?
• How to bring aboveground storage tanks up to code
• Management tips
• Protecting your farm well

Free nitrate screening - bring a sample of your well water Families Welcome Refreshments Drawing for 25 coupons good for tank upgrade equipment Door Prizes from Danco Prairie FS Coop For more information contact: Rudy Van Fleet Columbia County UW-Extension 608-742-9680

Designing your own brochure

Use this as a template to design your own brochure for an on-farm demo. Cut and past the text from this site into your favorite word processing or desktop publishing program. Go here to get the image (tif or jpeg format) of a farm we used for this brochure. Now you are ready to go to press.

Address for this site: http://www.wisc.edu/farmasyst/private/petro/demo.html
Created by: Richard Castelnuovo, rcasteln@students.wisc.edu,
Last modified: November 17, 1997