Milton, Ind. — Emergency responders fearing a serious fish kill apparently succeeded in keeping a 1,300-1,400 gallon spill of liquid nitrogen from getting into Whitewater River on May 3 by concentrating on an excavation effort that reached two feet deep in some spots. “It may have all absorbed into the soil,” reported Barry Sneed with the Indiana Department of Emergency Response. “We were trying to beat the rain and control any runoff the rain may cause.” He said the digging penetrated more than two feet on the west side of a state roadway, where in most cases 6 inches would do the job. Three hours after the incident there weren’t any significant amounts of nitrogen in the water, and live fish were spotted. The farmer was applying nitrogen to his field when the 1,500-gallon tank fell off a flat-bed trailer.
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