Hurricane Floyd has created unprecedented contamination in North Carolina's waterways. It is reported that 100,000 hogs and 1 million chickens are dead and Neuse Riverkeeper Rick Dove has estimated that breached lagoons have discharged an excess of 100 million gallons of hog waste. On Maryland's Eastern Shore, massive amounts of chicken waste has washed into the Chesapeake Bay threatening to destroy fish and wildlife habitat.

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