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-- between Grand Detour and Sterling.

Sgt. Carl Lewis of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources says they're trying to determine if the run off from a train derailment in the Rockford area got into the Kishaukee River, which flows into the Rock River. That train was carrying ethanol, and Friday's derailment caused an explosion that killed one person.

The Department of Natural Resources is working with the state Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

The state is advising the public not to eat fish from the Rock River in Ogle, Lee and Whiteside counties until the cause of the fish kill is determined.

Well that is obvious what killed the fish, it don't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

I hate to hear of that kind of stuff...It makes you wonder what slips by unnoticed into the water.

daddest thing is .....are state record flathead came from that area

I hate to hear about it.

the saddest thing is ....it drained off into the kishwakee river .....this river has been known for its small mouth bass and river tubing very nice lil river ....it drains into what we call 3 rivers ....kish. rockriver an the killbuck creek ....this is a badddd thing ....ive fished them areas .an caught a ton of fish ....this is so sad .....mother nature washed out the tracks due to very heavy rain fall ....which derailed 8 tanker cars ....but than the cars struck a natural gas line pipe n blew up .....poor nature !

It is sad to hear about this type of things, but it goes to show the lack of planing that was done when those tracks were put in. The way is see things when there building such a thing is that they should look at all scenarios as to what could happen, look if i can happen you damn well that it will it's just a matter of time. Yep it's sad that it happen but you watch and see who is going to have to pay for the clean up of the mess, i bet it will be the people that pays for most of it they already are by losing there fishing area's and fish.

Yep yep Mike...... I bet the people that own property, houses etc. their taxes are going to go up to pay for this. This really sucks that something like that happened. Apparently they weren't inspecting the tracks etc. like they were supposed to either. I feel that if they had been inspecting it, they would have found out that there was errosion and would have shut the tracks down to fix it.

Well even if they weren't inspecting it, they should have built it so that if anything like this happened it would have been contained rather than running into the rivers and trust me it will get into the drinking water.