Fish Kill Event - Prairie Creek
Prairie Creek between Watkins and Blairstown.
- Event ID
- 690
- Date of Kill
- 7/18/2006
- Waterbody Type
- River/Stream
- Cause Origin
- Anthropogenic
- Cause
- Animal Waste
- Mode
- Runoff
- Animal Waste Source
- Feedlot
- Animal Type
- Cattle (Unspecified)
- Approx Head
- Unknown/Unspecified
- Magnitude
- 8 (100,001 - 500,000 fish killed)
- Estimated Fish Killed
- 108,882
- Kill Length
- 14.00 miles
- Valuation
- $18,366.78
- Investigation Expenses
- $757.28
- County
- Benton
- ESD Field Office
- FO 1
- Fisheries Office
- Lake Macbride Station
- LongDD
- -92.16259
- LatDD
- 41.97189
- Created Date
- 7/20/2006 12:00:00 AM
- Last Update
- 2/21/2024 1:17:28 PM
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.
The DNR has traced a Benton County fish kill in a small tributary of Prairie Creek to an open feedlot. The operator of the relatively small feedlot had been watering cattle to cool them off, leaving puddles of water to mix with manure and corn glucose, a feed additive, in the lot. Rainfall the previous night apparently washed the manure-contaminated water into the stream and then into Prairie Creek. Dead fish were found in Prairie Creek for up to 14 miles downstream There were no dead fish found in the unnamed trib at the AFO of the kill's origin. The DNR found dead carp, white suckers, smallmouth bass and minnows below where the small stream joined Prairie Creek. Dead fish were observed in Prairie Creek between the road crossing on 17th Avenue in Union Township (T83N-R11W-S29) and the road crossing on 27th Avenue in St.Clair Township (T82N-R10W-S26).
SPECIES | NUMBER KILLED | MONETARY VALUE |
Minnows, chubs, etc. | 1 - 6" -------- 106,603 | $9,594.27 |
Darters | 1 - 2" ---------- 24 | $4.32 |
Suckers & Redhorse | 3 - 5" ----------123 | $116.85 |
Smallmouth Bass | 2 - 15" ------- 411 | $6,165.00 |
Channel Catfish | 35 | $525.00 |
Stonecats | 1 - 6" -------- 255 | $127.50 |
Stonerollers | 1- 6" --------- 634 | $57.06 |
Carp | 4 - 12 lbs. -- 38 | $434.36 |
Carpsuckers | 1 - 3" -------- 117 | $8.19 |
Total | 108,882 | $18,366.78 |