DNR Fines Grain Company

A Nebraska-based company, with multiple locations in the area, has agreed to pay more than a quarter-million dollars in fines from the Iowa DNR. The agency announced Gavilon will pay $270-thousand dollars after a fertilizer spill happened in Dubuque last summer. According to the DNR, about a million gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer was spilled – with over 400-thousand gallons of it entering local waterways. Natural Resource officials responded to the spill at Gavilon’s storage facility in Dubuque last June. The fertilizer went into storm sewer drains and flowed into the Bee Branch Pond. The DNR says the incident killed hundreds of fish and mussels.