Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Environmental Services Division

 

For Immediate Release                                                              

March 18, 2009

 

DNR INVESTIGATING SOUTHWEST IOWA FISH KILL

 

MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Stipe at (712) 243-1934 or [log in to unmask] 

 

ATLANTIC - DNR environmental and fisheries staffs are responding to a fish kill Wednesday afternoon south of Lyman in Cass County.

 

A wastewater release from a truck wash owned by Muller Livestock led to the fish kill in Rose Creek.

 

Employees pulled a drain plug on a basin that stores wastewater from the truck wash, mostly dirty wash water and the debris it washes off trucks, including manure. The wastewater flowed into a ditch and then into Rose Creek, killing fish along a two-and-a-half mile stretch of stream in southern Cass County and northern Montgomery County.

 

Rose Creek is a tributary of the West Nodaway River. 

 

DNR fisheries staff is conducting a fish count and environmental staff will continue to investigate the incident. The DNR will consider possible enforcement action.

 

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