Iowa officials investigating manure spills, fish kills
April 15, 2021
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa environmental officials are investigating two separate manure spills into state creeks that led to fish kills in both tributaries.
Both spills occurred Wednesday, according to a news release from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The first saw “several hundred thousand” gallons of livestock manure spilled into Mud Creek in Lyons County in the northwestern corner of Iowa. The second saw about 10,000 gallons of manure spilled into Kossuth County’s Lotts Creek in north central Iowa. Investigators reported finding a large number of dead fish at both sites.