DULUTH, MN (KDAL) – The City of Duluth will pay a 12,000 dollar fine and 190,000 dollars in compensation for an incident in 2024 that killed an estimated 2,300 fish in Tischer Creek.
The fish died when city crews released about 1.7 million gallons of treated drinking water from the Woodland reservoir into Tischer Creek. The water, which contained chlorine and ammonia as part of the water treatment process, was safe to drink but deadly to the fish in the creek.
Funds from the settlement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will be used for future restoration projects to remove barriers to fish migration and allow them to return to impacted areas of the creek.
The City of Duluth has also completed several corrective actions that include changes to the storm water pollution program which will prevent future discharges of drinking water directly into lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands.
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