Iowa DNR News
Environmental Services Division
DAIRY MANURE REACHES STREAM IN BREMER COUNTY
MEDIA CONTACT: Sue Miller at (563) 927-2640
DENVER –The DNR is investigating a manure release that has reached an unnamed tributary of Crane Creek, southeast of Denver and about 12 miles north of Waterloo.
Producers at the Denver Dairy found the release at 5 a.m. when they began work on New Year’s Day. Initially they reported that the dairy manure had not reached a stream, although it had plugged a pipe between the milking parlor and an earthen storage basin.
However, an unknown amount of manure has reached an underground tile line that flows into an unnamed tributary of Crane Creek.
The DNR will continue to investigate the manure release and provide technical assistance to the producer as clean up continues.
It is unknown if the spill has caused a fish kill, although no dead fish had been observed by Friday afternoon.
The DNR will issue a notice of violation for not reporting the manure spill within six hours of its occurrence or discovery.
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Karen Grimes
Communications Bureau
Iowa DNR
502 East Ninth Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0034
(515) 281-5135