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State won’t cite mine for wastewater release
By: Associated Press//October 4, 2018//
Listen to this articleMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A frack-sand mine won’t be cited for releasing an estimated 10 million gallons of wastewater in order to rescue a worker trapped in a holding pond in western Wisconsin.
Jim Dick, a spokesman for the State Department of Natural Resources, said the agency is not pursuing enforcement against the Hi-Crush industrial sand mine in Whitehall because of the life-saving measures involved in the release.
First responders were called to the mine May 21 after a contractor driving a bulldozer slipped into a holding pond. Hi-Crush workers drained the 3-acre pond where the driver was trapped in the bulldozer’s air-tight cab for more than two hours. The wastewater spilled onto neighboring farmland and into a tributary of the Trempealeau River.
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