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WEST BEND The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a manure spill and fish kill that happened Wednesday in rural Kossuth County.
The DNR responded to the manure spill in Lotts Creek, about two miles northeast of West Bend, on Wednesday afternoon.
According to a press release from the DNR, Precision Pumping, a commercial manure application company, was land applying manure through an umbilical rig when a hose came off the pump. The hose then flopped into the creek and spilled an estimated 10,000 gallons of manure before the pump could be shut down.
At the site, DNR found a large number of dead and dying fish in the creek. The department expects the fish kill to be ongoing as the manure moves downstream.
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DNR investigating two liquid manure spills, milky water in Mason City
The Department of Natural Resources is investigating two manure spills in northern Iowa that have killed fish and the spill of a food product that’s described as a pollutant once it reaches a stream.
DNR staff estimate several hundred thousand gallons of liquid manure from the Rock Bottom Dairy spilled into Mud Creek northwest of Rock Rapids in Lyon County. The manure laden-water is moving slowly downstream, according to the DNR, and the agency is warning farmers in the area who use the creek to water their livestock that conditions may not improve for the next few days.
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