blake
Life Member
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>From the IDNR:</span>
DNR Investigating Southwest Iowa Fish Kill
ATLANTIC - DNR environmental and fisheries staffs are responding to a fish kill Wednesday afternoon south of Lyman in Cass County.
A wastewater release from a truck wash owned by Muller Livestock led to the fish kill in Rose Creek.
Employees pulled a drain plug on a basin that stores wastewater from the truck wash, mostly dirty wash water and the debris it washes off trucks, including manure. The wastewater flowed into a ditch and then into Rose Creek, killing fish along a two-and-a-half mile stretch of stream in southern Cass County and northern Montgomery County.
Rose Creek is a tributary of the West Nodaway River.
DNR fisheries staff is conducting a fish count and environmental staff will continue to investigate the incident. The DNR will consider possible enforcement action.
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Ron Wyllie
Southwest Iowa IBA Area Representative
[email protected]