KNOWLTON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – A truck carrying fly ash left the roadway in Knowlton on Monday morning. Part of its load was dumped onto private land.
Land owner Corey Suthers tells WAOW NewsLine Nine that the truck was on a private road near Balsam Street when the accident happened around 7am. It was going to dump the fly ask into a designated pit when it swerved off the road.
Suthers, who owns the thousand acre plot of hunting land, said truckers were not supposed to go faster than 25 miles per hour along the road. The truck may have been going twice as fast.
Wisconsin Public Service says the truck was carrying fly ash from the Weston power plant. It’s a bi-product of burning coal.
WPS says the spilled ash has been removed. They are investigating now whether there is any groundwater contamination.
