DULUTH, Minn. — More than 1,000 fish were found dead in a Duluth creek in July after the city released more than a million gallons of disinfected water into it, pollution officials said.

DULUTH - About 1.7 million gallons of chloramine-treated water drained from a reservoir into the city’s Tischer Creek over 15 hours in July, killing hundreds of brook trout and other fish.

T he Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has linked the cause of the massive fish kill at Duluth’s Tischer Creek to the city pouring around 1.7 million gallons of chloraminated water into the stream.

MPCA Communications Specialist Beverly Godfrey says the city of Duluth drained an estimated 1.7 million gallons of chloraminated water into the creek from the Woodland Reservoir over a 15-hour ...