For
immediate release:
February 28, 2012
ANTIFREEZE
SOLUTION ENTERS FACILITY STORM SEWER AT FORT DODGE
MEDIA CONTACTS: Glenn Carper,
(641) 424-4073, [log in to unmask]
Fort
DODGE —Approximately 350 to 750
gallons of water containing 12 percent propylene glycol (antifreeze) was
released to the ground in the rain when a contractor hit and broke a chilled
water line at Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica. The spilled solution entered a
facility storm sewer at 800 5th Street, Fort Dodge. It then entered a
city storm sewer and was discharged to the Des Moines River about one-quarter
mile away.
A dike
was built on the facility’s property to prevent an additional release of the
solution. The facility notified the Iowa DNR as soon as the spill was
stopped.
Because antifreeze easily mixes
with water, the solution will have no impact to the Des Moines River. No fish
were killed.
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