________________________________ From: Press Releases from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:57 AM To: Dana Wade Subject: Manure Release Causes Fish Kill in Southeast Iowa [cid:image003.jpg@01CA7F07.B5DC1B00] For immediate release: december 17, 2009 Media Contact: Mark Heiderscheit, environmental specialist, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Washington Field Office, 319-653-2135. Manure Release Causes Fish Kill in Southeast Iowa WASHINGTON, Iowa – An estimated 4,000 to 5,000 gallons of hog manure was released overnight on Dec. 14 and 15, during application at an NPKK Pork, LLC, facility, in Washington County. Mark Heiderscheit, environmental specialist with the DNR’s Washington office who responded to the scene, said the manure applicator filled his tank and left to apply the manure. The stirring device used to combine solid and liquid manure for application was left on and shifted when it was unattended spraying the manure out of the basin. The manure runoff followed a channel designed to divert rainwater from the lagoon, through a field and settled over a tile buried beneath the snow. The tile outlet begins an unnamed tributary of Indian Creek. Employees with NPKK Pork dammed the tributary on Dec. 15, and began pumping the water that they would knife in to the ground. Heiderscheit collected water samples from the tributary about 30 feet down from the tile outlet and found the ammonia levels at 0.8 milligrams per liter. Background level of ammonia in Iowa is 0.5 mg/l. Heiderscheit continued to follow the tributary downstream where he found small dead fish. Vance Polton, fisheries technician for the Iowa at Lake Darling, was contacted to conduct a fish kill investigation. Heiderscheit instructed to NPKK Pork to scrape solids from the area where manure flowed across the ground and evenly apply in on nearby fields. He said the DNR will review the case once all the field samples are in and the fish kill investigation is complete and will determine any future enforcement action at that time. -30- [cid:image004.jpg@01CA7F07.B5DC1B00] --- You are currently subscribed to econewswire as: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe click the Unsubscribe link below, or send a blank email to: [log in to unmask] http://Membership.Lists.ia.gov/u?id=5088844W&n=T&c=F&l=econewswire (click here to unsubscribe) or send a blank email to If you received this message from a friend and would like to sign up for DNR Eco News Wire e-mails, please send a blank e-mail to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ________________________________ Spam<https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=49059390&m=a660e349b26b&c=s> Not spam<https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=49059390&m=a660e349b26b&c=n> Forget previous vote<https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=49059390&m=a660e349b26b&c=f> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp Sign up to receive Sierra Club Insider, the flagship e-newsletter. Sent out twice a month, it features the Club's latest news and activities. Subscribe and view recent editions at http://www.sierraclub.org/insider/