The River Falls Sportsman's Club, the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources and City of River Falls are offering deer hunters a safe, local solution for disposal of butchered animal remains during this year's gun deer hunting season.

A lined roll-off container provided by Murtha Sanitation has been sited near the City's Wastewater Treatment Facility, at the south end of Apollo Road. The collection site will remain open through the November deer gun season.

The container is accessible 24 hours a day.

Users are asked to only discard animal offal -- no household junk, old TVs, mattresses or couches, please. The area is closely monitored.

The carcass disposal is intended to help minimize the spread of chronic wasting disease, a fatal, infectious nervous system disease found in the deer family. Evidence shows CWD can be spread by improper disposal of carcasses.

CWD prions can remain in the environment for a long time, so other animals can contract CWD from the environment even after an infected deer or elk has died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For more information, visit https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/carcass.html

Submitted by River Falls Sportsman’s Club