News: Unity (Whey Spill 1983)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Maxinoski

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (28 September 1983)

WAUSAU -- About 5,000 gallons of whey saturated ditches and a small swampy area along Highway 13 when two large tanks at the Unity Dairy, Unity, were emptied during the week-end.

Marathon County deputies were told that the incident took place sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning. Officials tried to dilute the whey by flushing the ditches with water.

Dan Maxinoski, a DNR warden from Marshfield, examined the scene and said there is a potential for groundwater contamination. Valves on the tanks were not locked, a spokesman said, so anyone entering the plant could have opened them.

 

 


© Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

 

Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not copying it to any other site without our permission.

 

Become a Clark County History Buff

 

Report Broken Links

A site created and maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
and supported by your generous donations.

 

Webmasters: Leon Konieczny, Tanya Paschke,

Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,

Crystal Wendt & Al Wessel

 

CLARK CO. WI HISTORY HOME PAGE