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Water from small creek being tested after fire at Eddyville composting facility
State officials are monitoring water quality in a small tributary of the Des Moines River after a fire nearby at a solid waste composting facility in southeast Iowa.
The fire was reported Saturday at Chamness Technology, which is south of Eddyville. Kurt Levetzow of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says investigators believe the fire started in shredded trees and landscape waste from the August derecho piled on top of the facility’s compost pad.
“One of the piles basically spontaneously combusted,” he says. “It was located adjacent to a large pallet pile which was also to be shredded and ground up to be utilized as a bulking material in the compost wind rows and one fire led to the other.”