Fertilizer killed more than 750,000 fish in Iowa and Missouri

The carnage took place in the Nishnabotna River, which flows into the Missouri River

https://missouriindependent.com/2024/03/28/fertilizer-killed-more-than-750000-fish-iowa-missouri/

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Nishnabotna River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishnabotna_River

The Nishnabotna River (/nɪʃnəˈbɑːtnə/) is a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa, northwestern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska in the United States. It flows for most of its length as two parallel streams in Iowa, the East Nishnabotna River and the West Nishnabotna River. The east and west branches are each about 120 miles (190 km) long; from their confluence the Nishnabotna flows approximately another 16 miles (26 km).^[1]

Several sections of the rivers' courses have been straightened and heavily channelized.

In March 2024 a fertilizer spill killed much of the aquatic life across a 60-mile stretch of the Nishnabotna river in Iowa and Missouri, leaving an estimated 789,000 fish dead in one of the region’s most ecologically devastating chemical spills on record. The source of the spill originated when a valve was left open on a storage tank over the weekend of March 9-11 at NEW Cooperative, an agricultural business in Red Oak, Iowa. The leak drained approximately 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer into the nearby East Nishnabotna River

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This isn't the end of it either. The toxic nitrogen fertilizer drained into the Missouri river, then continued to track downstream on the Missouri, which drains into the Mississippi River and eventually reaches the Gulf of Mexico where it will greatly contribute to the DEAD ZONE this Spring.

https://iowawatershedapproach.org/resources/ghost/west-nishnabotna-river/west-nishnabotna-without-counties-1024x669/

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https://dnr.mo.gov/water/hows-water/state/surface/interstate

Therealenvironmental crisis's/insects dying-deadzones-aquifers drying up-plastics in the ocean-landfills/trash-over consumption of natural resources-REAL pollution in the air/soil/water-WIND TURBINES (metmike is a PRACTICING environmentalist): April 2019

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498/

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498/#27499

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They are assessing the damage just on this small river. There is/will be MUCH MORE damage than that downstream. That's alot of nitrogen!

I'm not sure how much the total is for nitrogen and other fertilizers that runoff into streams/rivers each year that eventually dump into the Gulf of Mexico but this is a great time to open a new discussion on it.......thanks a ton, Jean!