Fish Kill Event - Clark Creek
Approx 6 miles SW of New Albin
- Event ID
- 903
- Date of Kill
- 10/12/2015
- Waterbody Type
- River/Stream
- Cause Origin
- Anthropogenic
- Cause
- Animal Waste
- Mode
- Pumping Incident
- Animal Waste Source
- Lagoon/Storage
- Animal Type
- Unknown/Unspecified
- Approx Head
- Unknown/Unspecified
- Magnitude
- 1 (1 - 100 fish killed)
- Estimated Fish Killed
- 2
- Kill Length
- 0.75 miles
- Valuation
- $0.82
- Investigation Expenses
- $543.41
- County
- Allamakee
- ESD Field Office
- FO 1
- Fisheries Office
- Decorah State Hatchery
- LongDD
- -91.36507
- LatDD
- 43.42233
- Created Date
- 9/22/2016 12:54:00 PM
- Last Update
- 2/8/2019 2:00:21 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
Cause of spill occurred when a manure booster pump had a cap blow off, causing manure to flow from the machine onto the creek bank. Estimated 1000 gallons of manure was spilled. Most made it to Clark Creek. Very few dead fish were found either because they were land applied, the surge of water pushed them through when the berms broke and into the Upper Iowa River, or there just weren’t that many fish.