Fish Kill Event - White Breast Creek
Osceola
- Event ID
- 978
- Date of Kill
- 8/7/2019
- Waterbody Type
- River/Stream
- Cause Origin
- Anthropogenic
- Cause
- Wastewater
- Mode
- Pumping Incident
- Magnitude
- 4 (5001 - 10,000 fish killed)
- Estimated Fish Killed
- 5,705
- Kill Length
- 1.53 miles
- Valuation
- $2,921.80
- Investigation Expenses
- $585.67
- County
- Clarke
- ESD Field Office
- FO 5
- Fisheries Office
- Mt. Ayr State Hatchery
- LongDD
- -93.75159
- LatDD
- 41.01834
- Created Date
- 8/16/2019 3:12:50 PM
- Last Update
- 3/19/2020 9:27:01 AM
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
Waste digester overfill spilled sludge into the creek. Because of high organic matter in the sludge, oxygen levels dropped in the stream. Low oxygen and high ammonia levels are toxic to fish and other aquatic animals. The city is pumping water from the creek back to the wastewater plant, to limit pollution downstream.
| Species | Total # | 1 inch | 2 inch | 3 inch | 4 inch | 5 inch | 6 inch | 7 inch | 8 inch | 9 inch | 10 inch | 11 inch | 12 inch | 13 inch | ||
| Minnows, shiners, chubs and dace | 4,395 | |||||||||||||||
| Common Carp | 13 | 13 | ||||||||||||||
| Carpsucker spp. | 61 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 13 | |||||||||||
| Darter spp. | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Bullhead spp. | 249 | 154 | 27 | 7 | 40 | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| Channel Catfish | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Bluegill | 751 | 27 | 255 | 415 | 47 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Green Sunfish | 108 | 54 | 34 | 13 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Smallmouth Bass | 107 | 87 | 20 | |||||||||||||
| Largemouth Bass | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||