8/13/2020 · Employees at the store improperly disposed of milk that spoiled during the outage, Hy-Vee spokesperson Tina Potthoff said. A Hy-Vee employee made an uninformed decision when instructing others on…
8/12/2020 · The department and Ankeny officials ended up tracing the water’s alabaster tint back through a storm drain to milk released at the Hy-Vee store.
8/12/2020 · Hy-Vee said there was approximately 800 gallons of milk spilled , and the DNR said there hasn’t been any dead fish as a result of the spill..
8/15/2020 · Officials said a store employee instructed workers to du mp the milk following a power outage caused by a rare high wind storm on Monday. Hy-Vee released a statement saying the store employee made…
8/14/2020 · Officials said a store employee instructed workers to dump the milk following a power outage caused by a rare high wind storm on Monday. Hy-Vee released a statement saying the store employee made an uninformed decision in instructing workers how to dump the spoiled milk, Des Moines television station KCCI reported.
8/13/2020 · State investigators are assessing a fish kill in an Ankeny stream that feeds Des Moines’ water supply after Hy-Vee workers dum ped 800 gallons of milk down a storm sewer. A worker at the Hy-Vee in northern Ankeny told crew members to pour the milk in a storm sewer that dumps into a tributary of Fourmile Creek, Hy-Vee spokeswoman Tina Potthoff said in an interview.
8/13/2020 · The Iowa Department of Natural Resources may be taking action against Hy-Vee after it released 800 gallons of milk from its store at 410 N. Ankeny Blvd. .
8/14/2020 · ANKENY, Iowa — Environmental officials in Iowa are investigating a fish kill in a central Iowa creek they say was caused when a grocery store dumped 800 gallons of spoiled milk. The incident happened Wednesday morning when officials discovered a stretch of Fourmile Creek fouled by rancid milk and traced the source to a Hy-Vee store in Ankeny, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
Officials say a store employee instructed workers to dump the milk following a power outage caused by a rare high wind storm on Monday. Television station KCCI reports that Hy-Vee released a statement saying the store employee made an uninformed decision. DNR officials say minnows and small game fish have died in a span of a half-mile in the creek.
8/18/2020 · Hy-Vee released a statement saying the store employee made an uninformed decision in instructing workers how to dump the spoiled milk, Des Moines television station KCCI reported. “The moment this was brought to our attention, we immediately began working with the city of Ankeny, DNR and a third-party environmental cleanup company to address any potential issues,” the company said …
