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Monkey Waste Spills On Zoo Interchange:
Waste Presents No Health Risk
POSTED: 12:16 pm CDT May 4, 2004
MILWAUKEE -- Some monkey business messed up traffic this afternoon in a Milwaukee interchange.
A county truck carrying a load of monkey waste spilled across three lanes of traffic in the Zoo Interchange.
It closed both eastbound Interstate 94 and southbound Highway 45, but the lanes were reopened by 2:30 p.m.
The truck left the scene by 12:15 p.m. The vehicle can carry up to 2,000 gallons, but it's not known how much waste it was hauling.
An environmental specialist was called to supervise the cleanup.
Milwaukee County Zoo spokeswoman Jennifer Diliberti said the waste and algae was dredged from a moat at Macaque Island.
They dredge it twice a year and send it to a landfill in Franklin.
Diliberti said the waste doesn't pose a health risk and can simply be washed off the interstate.
The material had been "aged" at the zoo for 48 hours before being loaded into a Milwaukee County Parks Department truck for removal, she said.
That destroys any virus that might be in the material, she said.
The spill occurred because of a faulty latch on the county truck that was transporting the waste.]
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