EAGLE GROVE – On Thursday, the Iowa DNR traced a green color and ammonia in a Wright County drainage ditch to an egg laying facility about four miles south of Eagle Grove.
Field staff from the DNR’s Mason City office found wastewater from Daybreak Foods Inc. had been land applied on a field just before a heavy rainfall. Saturated soils likely caused a tile outlet below the field to begin discharging algae-laden water.
Daybreak Foods plugged the tile line to prevent further runoff.
The two-day investigation followed complaints received late Wednesday. DNR found elevated ammonia levels and green color in about two miles of the drainage ditch, but no dead fish.
DNR staff collected water samples in the ditch and river for laboratory testing, but field tests showed ammonia levels did not appear elevated in the Boone River downstream.
DNR will monitor cleanup efforts and consider appropriate enforcement action.
Daybreak Foods Inc. holds a DNR wastewater permit which specifies conditions for land applying liquids from an egg wash water lagoon.
Pig poop/chicken poop/elected official poop – which one smells the worst ? OH ! Some anti poison people rigged this ?- go back to bed – as the liberal said – it never really happened – or that’s what they teach you in school today.
It was rigged by that cci group of radical lawbreakers
Yumm Yumm – chicken poop flavored catfish – up in smoke – and just a joke.