A group of concerned residents and property owners in Mountville are headed to the South Carolina Court of Appeals after challenging the state environmental agency’s authorization of new poultry farms along Lisbon Road. These concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) would bring 16 new poultry barns to the area, which is already overburdened with 57 existing industrial poultry barns. These new barns would in total hold 528,000 broiler chickens and result in an annual litter production of 3,220 tons of manure.

On Friday, February 14, on behalf of South Carolinians for Responsible Agricultural Practices (SCRAP), the South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) filed a Notice of Appeal with the South Carolina Court of Appeals, asking the court to reverse the South Carolina Administrative Law Court’s decision to dismiss SCRAP’s case filed in July 2024, which contested the agricultural animal facility operating permits for these new poultry farms.