MURPHY FAMILY FARMS v. DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT

No. COA02-1205.

585 S.E.2d 446 (2003)

MURPHY FAMILY FARMS and Murphy Farms, Inc. d/b/a Murphy Family Farms, Petitioners, v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 16, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jordan Price Wall Gray Jones & Carlton, PLLC, by Henry W. Jones, Jr. and Brian S. Edlin, Raleigh, for petitioners-appellees.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Jill B. Hickey, Assistant Attorney General, and Francis W. Crawley, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.


STEELMAN, Judge.

Respondent, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), appeals a judgment that reversed portions of a final agency decision involving water violations and hog waste. For the reasons discussed herein, we affirm in part and reverse in part.

Petitioner, Murphy Family Farms (Murphy), operates a hog production facility known as Vestal Farms in Duplin County, North Carolina. Prior to 1998, Murphy treated its animal...

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