(Montrose, IA) — Crews are continuing to clean up spilled diesel fuel and coal after a train derailment in southeast Iowa’s Lee County along the banks of the Mississippi River.
DNR environmental specialist Caroline Davis says the freight train hit the river barge shortly before midnight on Saturday. They are not sure why the barge was so close to the tracks.
Booms are floating in the river to keep as much diesel as possible from washing downstream, while Davis says “quite a bit” of fuel has already been siphoned up. No one was injured.
