Officials in Boone County in central Iowa are working to contain an ethanol spill from a leaking railroad tanker car. Boone County Emergency Management Coordinator Dave Morlan says the car is now in a rail yard on the west side of the county.
Morlan says from what they’ve been able to tell, one of the seals on the ethanol tanker came loose. He says it sounds like the spill is just within Boone County. Morlan says the tanker carries 30,000 gallons of ethanol. Morlan says there is a large pool of ethanol in the railyard, but he says it’s hard to tell how much ethanol is there because there is a lot of snow and the ethanol is going under the snow.
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