Since we have adopted a National policy of punishment for treatment of
crimes, I suggest that contractors be hired to collect and deliver all the
dead fish etc, to the front door of the office of Koch Industries, and then
bill them for the hauling charges, and give them the maximum fine for
pollution, and bill them for all the charges necessary to contain the
pollution.

Paul Rebers

At 10:37 PM 12/18/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Iowa DNR News
>Environmental Protection Division
>
>For immediate release    Dec. 18 2001
>
>EFFORTS MADE TO STOP CONTAMINATION FROM REACHING EAST FORK OF DES MOINES
>RIVER
>
>LIVERMORE - A dam was constructed on Lotts Creek near Livermore late Tuesday
>afternoon in an attempt to prevent contaminated water from a broken
>anhydrous ammonia line from reaching the East Fork of the Des Moines River.
>
>By Tuesday afternoon, contamination from the spill, which originated eight
>miles west of Algona, had killed virtually all fish as well as other
>water-dwelling animals including snapping turtles, frogs and muskrat along
>at least 18 miles of Lotts Creek. Although total counts have not yet been
>tabulated, the final kill estimates are expected to be in the hundreds of
>thousands.
>
>If the contaminated water reaches the East Fork of the Des Moines River, the
>number of fish killed would go much higher, according to DNR biologists.
>
>"We are making every effort we can make to prevent a fish kill from
>occurring on the East Fork of the Des Moines River," said Bill Jinkinson,
>supervisor of the DNR's field office in Mason City.
>
>The dam constructed was approximately four to five feet high and stretched
>approximately 30 feet across Lotts Creek just above where the creek enters
>the East Fork of the Des Moines River near Livermore. Four pumps capable of
>pumping 5,000 gallons a minute total have been put in place to land apply
>the contaminated water on 800 acres of adjoining farm land.
>
>The spill started Friday, Dec. 14 when the pipeline owned by Koch
>Industries, Inc. was ruptured during maintenance work. Koch Industries has
>put a device known as an air sparger in place which allows more air to
>interface with the contaminated water to help break down the ammonia
>concentration.
>
>There is also a possibility that additional treated water from the Livermore
>waste treatment lagoon may be used to help dilute the contamination in Lotts
>Creek, Jinkinson said.
>
>The leading edge of the contaminated water was expected to reach the dam nea
>r the East Fork of the Des Moines River at approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday,
>approximately 25 miles downstream from where the spill originally occurred,
>according to Jinkinson.
>
>"We would anticipate having to pump water 24 hours a day for the next
>several days until it will be safe again to open up the stream into the East
>Fork of the Des Moines," Jinkinson said.
>
>
>For more information, contact Kevin Baskins at (515) 281-8395.
>
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