Animal Fat Spill - 200 GALLONS Of Animal Fat

[matcom]

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SHELDON, Iowa --At least 200 gallons of animal fat were spilled into a storm sewer Thursday morning, state environmental officials said.

A hose separated from a truck that was delivering the animal fat to the Midwest Farmers Co-op in Sheldon, according to a news release from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

More fat may have been spilled, but all of it didn't enter into a nearby storm sewer, where much of it had solidified. A small, but unknown amount of the fat reached the Floyd River, the news release said.

A small dam was built by the co-op to prevent additional fat from reaching the river, and DNR officials said a private contractor from Spencer was scheduled to jet clean the storm sewer late Thursday to remove the solidified fat.

Environmental officials were expected to inspect the area as needed.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/06/23/over_200_gallons_of_animal_fat_spill?mode=PF

[madeline_con]

1. "A small, but unknown amount of the fat ...

reached the Floyd River, the news release said."

That's rich! If it was an unknown amount, how do they know it was small?
Can't they tell how much spilled by how full the truck is? Is too much fat in the diet that does this?

[demnan]

2. Yes

it ended up right around my middle! Oh no! That's where it came from!

[ReadTomPaine]

3. The rats in that sewer are going to have cholesterol problems, big time.

[mark11727]

4. Two months later...

... hundreds of chubby, puffing rats come bouncing out of the sewers, clutching their little rat chests. Ack!