For immediate release: AUG. 25, 2009

 

SMALL AMOUNT OF DIESEL FUEL REACHES PLYMOUTH COUNTY STREAM

 

MEDIA CONTACT: Ken Hessenius, Spencer DNR field office, at (712) 262-4177 or [log in to unmask]

 

LE MARS – The driver of a pickup truck hauling an empty manure tank lost control Tuesday afternoon, causing the pickup to land in a stream about 4.5 miles south of Le Mars.

 

The driver, Chris DeRocher, of DeRocher Construction Company in Le Mars, estimates less than five gallons of diesel fuel has leaked out of the tank. The fuel left a sheen on the stream which flows into Plymouth Creek and then the Floyd River.

 

The LeMars fire department plans to place an absorbent boom across the creek to keep fuel from traveling downstream. The DNR will require the company to remove contaminated soil next to the stream.

 

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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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