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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public review and comment on the 2023 Draft Addendum to the Final Assessment Plan for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the Sauget Industrial Corridor Sites: Inclusion of the 2023 Avian Exposure Study and Avian Population Density Study. Comments will be accepted until May 3, 2023. Please submit comments by mail or email to:
...On August 10, 2008, a 20-inch diameter underground pipeline ruptured and discharged about 5,000 barrels of crude oil over a short period onto the surface and into a bottomland forest wetland complex. The wetland complex is situated in the floodplain of Elm Creek in rural southern Illinois. The response was immediate and the responsible party, Marathon, was able to...
On July 9, 2008 four Iowa, Chicago and Eastern (IC&E) railroad engines derailed into the Mississippi River two miles south of Guttenberg, Iowa as a result of a larger boulder on the tracks. The submerged engines leaked 2,108 gallons of diesel fuel and transmission oil that reached five miles downstream.
Oil leaked from the derailed engines and spill...
On February 4, 2015, 15 cars from a Canadian Pacific train derailed into and along the Mississippi River two miles northeast of Balltown, Iowa. Fourteen tanker cars spilled an estimated 55,000 gallons of denatured ethanol into the Mississippi River and a nearby cold water stream. Three of the tanker cars slid down the railroad grade into the Mississippi River and onto freshwater...