Manure spill not a threat to Kingston

More than 11 million litres of liquid manure recently spilled into Black River in the northern area of New York initially posing a concern to Kingston, ON city officials.President and CEO of Utilities Kingston Jim Keech says he is monitoring the spill and is confident that it will not reach Kingston. The spill was caused when the wall of a holding lagoon at a dairy farm blew out. Once in the river, the manure swept westward, heading toward Black River Bay, which flows into Lake Ontario and is about 60 km southeast of Kingston.Even in the Black River Bay region, Keech says the manure is not expected to pose much of a problem. He adds that because Kingston is so far away from the original spill site and because it is upstream, it will require only the normal treatment process already in place to treat the diluted amount of fecal matter that may be in the water.However at the site of the spill, New York state officials say hundreds of thousands of fish, including perch, bass, catfish, shiners and walleye were killed by the contaminated water.