(Des Moines) — The Iowa Environmental Protection Commission is referring an alleged water pollution case to the Iowa Attorney General’s office.
Commission Attorney Bradley Adams says Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy (SIRE) illegally released sludge from its wastewater treatment facility near Council Bluffs into the Missouri River. He says they got a complaint August 25th of an orange sludge being released into the river.
“On August 26th, Field Office 4 investigated the complaint and observed an orange wastewater discharging from the effluent pipe, orange coloration of the riverbank where the sludge deposits formed, and also orange sludge deposit buildup and the water beneath the effluent pipe,” he says…