Iowa DNR News

Environmental Services Division

 

For immediate release                                                                             Sept. 17, 2008

 

WASTEWATER RELEASE IN KEOKUK ON TUESDAY

 

MEDIA CONTACT: Russell Royce or Mark Heiderscheit at (319) 653-2135

 

KEOKUK – About 1,000 gallons of untreated wastewater ran into a Keokuk storm sewer and then to the Mississippi River Tuesday.

 

The release was caused by an electrical problem in one of the pumps at the Roquette America plant. Plant workers quickly switched to another pump and stopped the release within 15 minutes. They were making repairs about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday. 

 

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Karen Grimes

Communications Bureau

Iowa DNR

502 East Ninth Street

Des Moines, IA 50319-0034

(515) 281-5135

 
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