Green fluid found in Harrison creek

Investigators with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality are analyzing the contents of a bright-green fluid discovered Thursday in a dry creek bed in Harrison.

Kent McCormick, director of the Boone County Office of Emergency Management, said the county sheriff’s office received a call alerting personnel to the green fluid in Dry Jordan Creek in Harrison. Sheriff’s office personnel then contacted McCormick, he said.

The liquid is on city property near North Vine Street and a number of businesses, McCormick said. The creek doesn’t currently have water flowing, he said.

McCormick said he contacted the Environmental Quality Department, which dispatched inspector Bruce Kirkpatrick from the department’s Jasper field office. The pH balance of the liquid was found to be neutral, and further analysis of the samples was to be conducted Friday, department spokesman Katherine Benenati said. Mc-Cormick said Friday morning that no steps had been taken to contain the liquid.