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Chemical spill at Lagoon Amusement Park kills 100 fish in Farmington Creek

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A student drops her egg box during the Egg drop competition at the 2018 29th Annual Utah State University Physics Day where some 9,000 high school and middle school students from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada compete in science projects, Friday, May 18, 2018 at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington.

A chemical spill at Lagoon Amusement Park that leaked into Farmington Creek over the weekend killed more than 100 fish.

FOX 13 has reported that the incident occurred because of a leak in the line between a pump and a tank of sodium hypochlorite — a liquid bleach — possibly because of a broken tube connecting the two.

The spill area is not publicly accessible, and the spill did not affect humans.

While Davis County Health Department officials have not yet determined how much spilled, the tank holds up to 1,000 gallons and only a little was left in the bottom, Rachelle Blackham, the department’s environmental health director, told FOX 13.

See more at FOX 13.

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