Posted August
15, 2005: Three million gallons of liquid cow
manure poured into the Black River sometime around Thursday
morning. The spill occurred when a wall of the reservoir
at Marks Farm, one of New York’s largest dairy farms,
gave way. Workers’ efforts to contain the spill
failed and in the end the contamination was roughly a
fourth the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The
spill has already effected several communities in the
Adirondack region especially those in the tourist industry
who rely on the river. But perhaps the largest and most
lingering effect will come to the occupants of the river
itself, experts are estimating millions of trout, bass,
pickerel, pike and walleye, will be lost before the incident
is over.
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