BEATRICE, Neb. -- The Gage County Planning and Zoning commission hosted a meeting at the Gage Courthouse Tuesday. 

The meeting was centered around a new hog confinement building planning to be built north of the town of Liberty. 

“They are trying to put a hog confinement building just a mile and half north of Liberty, and it will be housing 6,249 finishing hogs,” said Clint Rule, a meeting attendee. “The building will be approximately the size of a football field, and they will be taking this slurry, they call it, it's hog manure, and they will be applying it on three different fields.”

Summit Pork LLP, located in Iowa, needs 89 acres to apply the manure to three different fields and six acres for the building. 

The commission voted and approved of the building of the confinement during the meeting. 

“It was approved through planning and zoning - the board of supervisors and that would be a different group of people,” said Rule. “They would be able to go through our concerns again and vote on them one more time.”

Some residents, like Patty Barnard, see the disadvantages of building the confinement like manure antibiotic runoff into ponds and lakes affecting fish, a bad smell and poor air quality. 

“We just don’t want it. For the smell, the air, the water and that’s what worries us with Rockford Lake, with our pond,” said Barnard. “Our grandkids have fished in our pond and it’s just gonna [be rough]."

The board of supervisors will have the final vote over the approval of building the hog confinement in the next meeting set for October.