Fish Kill Event - Sugar Creek

East of Tipton

Event ID: 894
Date of Kill: 8/5/2015
Waterbody Type: River/Stream
Cause Origin: Anthropogenic
Cause: Animal Waste
Mode: Pumping Incident
Animal Waste Source: Confinement
Animal Type: Hogs
Approx Head: Unknown/Unspecified
Magnitude: 5 (10,001 - 25,000 fish killed)
Estimated Fish Killed: 22,807
Kill Length: 3.80 miles
Valuation: $9,259.97
Investigation Expenses: $303.33
County: Cedar
ESD Field Office: FO 6
Fisheries Office: Lake Macbride Station
LongDD: -91.09718
LatDD: 41.79352
Created Date: 10/23/2015 1:29:00 PM
Last Update: 2/8/2019 3:24:08 PM

For more information about this fish kill event, contact the Field Office or Fisheries Office listed above.

Impacted Assessment Segments

Lat/Long uses WGS84 datum

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

Responsible party said a coupler broke while he was draining a hog confinement and the spilled manure made it to a drainage ditch that entered the stream. Cedar County, Fair Field Township, Sec 25 T81N, R2W. The kill started below a drainage ditch in Sugar Creek in section 29 (UTM X = 658099, Y = 4628601) and extended approximately 3.8 miles to just downstream of Red Star Road in section 9 of Center Township in Cedar County (UTM = 658898, Y = 4624765).