Fish Kill Event - Mill Creek
Drainage ditch downstream from a dairy farm west of Primghar
- Event ID
- 876
- Date of Kill
- 8/17/2013
- Waterbody Type
- River/Stream
- Cause Origin
- Anthropogenic
- Cause
- Animal Waste
- Mode
- Runoff
- Animal Waste Source
- Unknown/Unspecified
- Animal Type
- Cattle (Dairy)
- Approx Head
- Unknown/Unspecified
- Magnitude
- 9 (500,001 - 999,999 fish killed)
- Estimated Fish Killed
- 865,940
- Kill Length
- 27.90 miles
- Valuation
- $158,551.63
- Investigation Expenses
- $1,945.73
- County
- O'Brien
- ESD Field Office
- FO 3
- Fisheries Office
- Spirit Lake Hatchery
- LongDD
- -95.69421
- LatDD
- 43.08870
- Created Date
- 10/22/2015 8:26:00 AM
- Last Update
- 2/18/2019 2:18:19 PM
Impacted Assessment Segments
Highlighted river segments indicate those impacted in part or whole by this fish kill event. It is not meant to represent the actual extent of the kill.
Onsite Comments
The drainage ditch flows into Mill Creek. The kill began in (Section 33, T96N, R41W) and the fish kill extended downstream 49,134 yards (Section 33, T94N, R41W). The discharge occurred when rain caused runoff from the facility to enter a trench dug to redirect rain from a construction site at Summit Dairy. The runoff then crossed a soybean field and entered the unnamed tributary.