HILLSBORO, N.D. (AP) - The manager of a proposed new Hutterite colony south of Hillsboro says it will include a new manufacturing plant to build grain handling equipment.

Construction of the Spruce Lane colony is planned to start this spring. A group of families are moving to North Dakota from near Mitchell, S.D.

Hutterite colonies normally have about 20 families and 4,000 acres of land.

Hutterites are a religious group. They run communal farms and often have manufacturing operations.

Some neighbors of the proposed colony in Traill County's Bohnsack Township question the development.

They say a sewage lagoon will be near the Elm River, and the manufacturing plant may cause pollution.

Township chairman John Henn says the project complies with local zoning rules.