Have they renamed the creek yet?

>>> gerald neff <[log in to unmask]> 10/4/2011 6:34 PM >>>
Leaving the scene briefly must have been quite a while to pump up to
50,000 gallons. If you build it, it will spill.  Jerry
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Sent: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:33:43 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Fw: DNR News: Fish kill averted in Lee County


For immediate release: Oct. 4, 2011


FISH KILL AVERTED IN LEE COUNTY MANURE SPILL 



MEDIA CONTACT: Russ Royce at 319-653-2135 or
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MONTROSE – The DNR investigated a manure spill from a small dairy about
one mile south of Montrose in Lee County Monday evening. 



Dairy producer Raymond Dresser of Keokuk was pumping out a pit to use
the manure in land application. Dresser briefly left the pump running. A
hydraulic valve on the pump malfunctioned releasing an estimated 25,000
to 50,000 gallons of manure. The manure travelled several hundred yards
into a waterway. 



Dresser acted quickly to dam the waterway at the lowest end, trapping
much of the manure so he could pump it up and reclaim it, and called the
DNR to report the spill about 3 p.m. 



An unknown amount of manure flowed downstream to reach a branch of
Lamalees Creek. 



“The producer was fortunate, because the creek was dry,” said Russell
Royce an environmental specialist from the DNR Washington field office.
“He did the right things, damming the waterway and pumping up the
manure. But he’s lucky, because if there had been any water in the
creek, conditions were right for a fish kill – low water levels and warm
temperatures. 



Royce cautions other livestock producers to have someone watching the
pump and to take care during the fall manure application season. “This
time of year it doesn’t take much to cause a water quality problem or
fish kill,” he said.



The DNR will continue to monitor the situation and consider appropriate
enforcement action.



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Karen Grimes

DNR Communications Specialist

515-281-5135



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