Liquid cattle feed has to be cleaned up in Arkansas City
Winfield Courier - December 23, 2009


Arkansas City firefighter-paramedic Craig Farley uses a high-pressure sprayer on a spill on the corner of A Street and Madison Ave. Tuesday in Arkansas City. (Donita Clausen/Traveler)

Arkansas City city workers on Tuesday night had to apply sand to an estimated 120 gallons of liquid cattle feed that leaked onto Arkansas City streets.

The smelly substance apparently came from a Dodge pickup truck with a leaky tank in the back, an eyewitness told authorities.

A liquid trail extended south on A Street near the post office at Washington Avenue. It proceeded south to Madison Avenue, west on Madison to Fifth Street and then back east on Madison to the Mike Groves service station, just west of the U.S. 77 bypass.

The Arkansas City Fire Department responded to a 911 call of a "substance on the streets" at 4:54 p.m., said a fire department spokesman. Firefighters began spraying a high-pressure mixture of soap and water on the spill, before they were ordered to stop.


A sand truck was dispatched to the scene at about 6 p.m., said Ark City emergency management coordinator Bob Frazee.

"Sand will help absorb it more and will make it easier to drive on," Frazee said.