Spilled Dairy Cream Now in Dallas County Creek

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By Daren Sukhram

Story Created: Nov 24, 2009 at 5:49 PM CST

Story Updated: Nov 24, 2009 at 5:49 PM CST

DE SOTO (AP) - Authorities say a weekend spill of dairy cream near De Soto has now reached a Dallas County stream.

A semitrailer hauling 5,000 gallons of dairy cream overturned Saturday while exiting Interstate 80. Emergency workers used sand to contain the spilled cream at the site for the Oklahoma-based trucking company to clean up later.

But as of Tuesday, the company had not removed the cream, and rain weakened the sand berms holding it. As a result, some of the cream flowed into a drainage ditch and south through the town of De Soto to Bulger Creek, a tributary of the South Raccoon River.

While the Department of Natural Resuorces did not observe a fish kill in the creek or river, it said cream can threaten fish and other aquatic life.

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