Andrea Macko is reporting for Porcupine Soup that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is continuing its investigation into an alum spill on August 7, at the Catskill village water treatment facility in Coxsackie. The spill resulted in a fish kill in the nearby Potic Creek. According to the DEC, approximately 1,500 gallons of aluminum salts, or alum, leaked from a broken pipe. That leak has since been repaired. DEC Fisheries employees were at the creek Aug. 8, removing fish and assessing the situation. The flow of the creek is at a trickle and the sediment left by the alum has not moved, the agency stated. Potic Creek is not a public drinking water source, and the DEC emphasized there is no public health threat from the spill. “The facility is currently cleaning up impacted water from its settling ponds and lagoons to ensure that it is not discharged and there are no further impacts to the creek,” the DEC stated. “In the meantime, alum does not bioaccumulate, so other wildlife that may feed on the dead fish are not impacted.” The DEC’s investigation is ongoing. Read the full story at porcupinesoup [dot] com.