UNACCEPTABLE Iowa Fish Kill - 750,000 fish DEAD - Nishnabotna River Fertilizer Spill near Red Oak
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- UPDATE (03/27/2024) - An estimated 750,000 fish died in this fertilizer spill, according to an article from Iowa Capital Dispatch.
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This isn't the first or the last fish kill in Iowa, unfortunately.
Around March 16-18, an open valve at a NEW Cooperative facility allowed HUNDREDS of thousands of gallons of liquid fertilizer to run off into the East Nishnabotna River System.
While this spill is on a different scale, Iowa has a major water quality problem that needs to be addressed, as small-scale events like this are far too common and happen regularly. In fact, most fields in Iowa have extra nutrients, nutrients that humans added to the field, that run off and enter our waterways, causing high nitrate levels.
There have been 47 documented fish kills in Iowa between 2020 and 2022, according to the Iowa DNR. "More than half of Iowa’s tested streams and lakes are impaired, DNR finds in report" - Des Moines Register - www.desmoinesregister.com/sto...
"Iowa official finds dead fish in 50 miles of fertilizer-contaminated river" - Des Moines Register - www.desmoinesregister.com/sto...
Fuel Spill on Nishnabotna: www.wowt.com/2024/03/21/iowa-...
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Another spill? This one liquid nitrogen! Trains derailing with chemicals, oil spills, and now this!
There's nothing to see here, folks. This is all perfectly normal! 🤬
Sad, but unfortunately we are imperfect humans that cause some problems in our world. Wish we cared more about our wild spaces…
Red oak is corrupted... sheriff definitely is .
Lets put a fertilizer plant right next to a river just in case there is a major spill. I dont get that. The land must be cheap. There should be a buffer of protection as big as what is kept in the fertilizer plant to prevent it from reaching the river. Oh well. Too late now.
Do you have links to the reports or resources to learn about the fresh water quality in Iowa? Can you share please?
The Iowa Environmental Council is a good organization to follow for updates about this kind of thing. Supporting local conservation groups like Trout Unlimited, the Coldwater Conservancy, Isaak Walton League is another good way to stay involved.
Silly question but does eating foods that don't use synthetic fertilizers help prevent disasters like this? Does eating organic help?
Interesting thought. Ultimately, if you ate “organic”, this spill would have still occurred; it was due to human error leaving a valve open.
@@flyfishiowa right but do organic farms use substances that would be as toxic?
@@IAMHonoredtoKnowYou it’s not necessarily about the chemical itself - it’s about the volume. Almost any chemical in too high of quantity can be toxic. Combined with Iowa’s already nutrient-rich soils, the extra nutrients make water quality really bad when they run off into the waterways. This instance was just an extremely high-volume discharge.
The same is likely true at an “organic” facility- some runoff will likely occur- but you might not see the same volume or quantity (I’m not an expert, just my suspicion)
@@IAMHonoredtoKnowYou and to be fair, I’m unaware of what chemicals organic farms use as fertilizer, but I’m guessing it would be nitrate-rich regardless of if it was “synthetic” or “natural”
Cool thank you
I grew up in Iowa and they claim they have great drinking water. This is terrible!
The Iowa Environmental Council just filed a complaint with the EPA in the past few weeks about drinking water issues. Hopefully things get at least partially addressed in the near future
The Drainage systems of our county have been mistreated for far too long. Current agriculture practices are trashing our beautiful continent. 
Agreed, what’s your solution?
@@flyfishiowa Easy, farm like the native Americans did. They farmed these lands for thousands of years renewing the soils with slash-and-burn agriculture and companion planting. We don't need chemical fertilizers at all. I would recommend a greater reliance on GMOs not as a way to make crops more resistant to environmentally detrimental pesticides but to give them genes from organisms that have evolved resistants naturally. Agricultural practices in this country have remained largely unchanged since the 1940s due to financial incentives driving the status quo. I believe the Native Americans have proven the concept that agriculture doesn't need to degrade the land but enrich it. Bottom line current practices have to be sifted in a more sustainable direction otherwise the Mississippi River will always tell the truth about us.
@Westbound100
Agreed. Maybe one day we can revert back to that. I suppose back then, the indians weren't trying to feed the world. We managed to screw up this country in 300 years. Meanwhile the indians kept it pristine for 12000 years.
I agree with the idea, unfortunately the powers-that-be won’t allow that to happen in the short term. Hopefully we can (as a society) find a solution to improve things and move in the right direction ASAP.
@westbound100 and they only had a limited number to feed too, but keep that dream going
this world is disgusting.
im pretty sure Enlil came back already though. Really just a sad thing humans are choosing to do right now.
Thankfully there are still people who fighting for good and right things in our world!
There needs to be a large buffer zone of trees between fields and waterways. However farmers plow straight to the edge of the river, which also causes erosion. Now UA-cam won't let anyones see my comments because the truth is dangerous so I've been shadow-banned, which is also unacceptable, like mass pollution.
Buffer strips are certainly good practice compared to planting all the way to the stream bank.
It’s all on purpose people!!!!! WAKE UP NOW FROM YOUR DEEP SLEEP!!!!
I don’t know about someone wasting over half a million dollars of fertilizer on purpose, but it certainly does have egregious consequences
@flyfishiowa he's right it's all by design... red oak sheriff is corrupted
So sad
Incredibly sad.
Is this how they get rid of Asian carp?
There’s silver carp, bighead carp, and grass carp in Iowa (none native), but most of these carp that died were common carp and grass carp.
Another UA-camr that traps that river couldn't find a dead Asian carp or gar over the 20+ miles he walked. I think 750k dead is grossly understated. This is Ernst's hometown so I don't expect much to come of it in fines. The last spill the judge cut the fines to nothing because the co-op would be bankrupted.
If my business did 1-10, 000 of that I'd be fined out of existence
Good perspective, that’s wild to think about.
$6000 fine thats totally appropriate
I didn’t see that news until you just mentioned it. That’s terrible.
That's all they got fined??
@@IAMHonoredtoKnowYou according to an article by The Gazette, $6k so far, 10k is max fine allowed by the DNR unless DNR asks for more restitution with the help of legal courts.
@@IAMHonoredtoKnowYouupdate that I’m reading now is that there’s been a 10k fine issued.
new sub
Much appreciated 🙏
And the. Only people that will pay is the animals and the people who live around this disaster
There will be some “restitution” fines but definitely won’t be the last chemical spill in Iowa