Purina Mills denies polluting soil

[cherriesrockmysocks]

What I found so interesting about this, is that they dumped it into a sinkhole...near Farm Roads 124 and 101 And it took two miles before it got into a stream and pond...



Purina Mills denies polluting stream
Spokeswoman says molasses dumping was not company's intention; investigation continues.

Soil is taken from the spot at Purina Mills, 2726 W. Division St., near where molasses was emptied from a railroad car. Purina Mills is denying that it is at fault for molasses being poured into a sinkhole.


There was no intention to allow molasses taken from Springfield Purina Mills to become a pollutant, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday.
"While it was under our control, no molasses was released into the environment," Land O' Lakes spokeswoman Lydia Botham said from the company's headquarters near Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.

Purina Mills is a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes.

"It didn't meet our quality standards, so we contacted a licensed and bonded contractor to remove the molasses from the facility," Botham said of the decision to remove molasses used to produce animal feed from the mill. "None of the molasses was released from our property."

On Wednesday, DNR regional supervisor Bruce Martin said the agency is investigating both the mill and the owner of the septic tank cleaning company that Purina hired to remove the molasses for violations of state clean water laws.

Martin said molasses in a railroad tank car that had a malfunctioning heater was put in the mill's storm water detention basin, then pumped from the basin and finally released into the sinkhole.

Removal of molasses-tainted soil at a Greene County sinkhole owned by German Septic owner Steve Lindsay and at the Purina mill on West Division Street was ongoing Thursday as DNR continued to investigate how the molasses was dumped.

"There are still a lot of questions being asked," said regional water quality chief Kevin Hess. "Those are still details we're trying to iron out right now."

DNR representatives estimate over 50,000 gallons of a molasses-and-rainwater mixture was dumped earlier this month into the sinkhole near Farm Roads 124 and 101. They say it traveled two miles in four days before darkening the water in Clear Creek Spring this past weekend.

Spring owner Russ Campbell said before the substance was identified as molasses that he believes the pollutant contributed to a fish kill in a pond below the spring.

DNR emergency response personnel are overseeing cleanups at the mill and sinkhole.


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[White Rabbit]

Sounds like their molasses are in trouble.

*rimshot*

Thank you, thank you.