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Thousands of fish die in spill on Floyd River

January 8, 2002 By admin

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fish are dead on the Floyd River after nitrogen spilled Monday at the Midwest Farmers Co-op in the northwestern Iowa town of Sheldon. The environmental impact is still being assessed. The D-N-R says the liquid nitrogen spilled when a transfer pipe split between a storage tank and a railroad car. The fertilizer fell outside a containment dike designed to prevent accidents and flowed into a storm drain. The river is partly dammed with hay bales as the stream is being pumped into a field. Four inches of ice on the stream are hampering efforts.

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