Email: Betsy Bowles
Avian Flu Information
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has been working with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service and Virginia Poultry Disease Task Force to further advance the knowledge and resources available to combat an outbreak of avian flu (AI) in Virginia.
Click on the following links for more information:
- Virginia DEQ Disposal Recommendations
- US EPA Disposal Guidance
- Virginia DEQ AI Disposal Presentation to EPA Region 3
- Virginia DEQ Solid Waste Program
- Evaluation of Poultry Carcass Disposal Methods
- Lessons Learned from Historical AI Outbreaks in Virginia
- In-House Composting Fact Sheet
- In-House Composting of Turkeys (poster)
- Static Pile Composting Fact Sheet
- In-Vessel Composting Fact Sheet
- In-Vessel Composting Evaluation
- Landfilling Fact Sheet
- In-House Composting as a Rapid Response to Avian Influenza (BioCycle magazine article - May 2006)
- Carcass Incineration Presentation (from the National Carcass Disposal Symposium in Maryland, December 2006)
- Carcass Landfilling Presentation (from the National Carcass Disposal Conference in Maryland, December 2006)
- Carcass Composting Presentation (from the National Carcass Disposal Conference in Maryland, December 2006)
- Composting Wild Birds, Game Birds and Backyard Poultry (BioCycle magazine article - November 2006)
- Disposal Dilemma (Poultry magazine article - December 2006)
- Initial Evaluation of On-Farm Composting in West Virginia NEW
Other Links
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services