Guthrie County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Jeremy Bennett has released statistics with regards to the sheriff’s office most recent special traffic enforcement project. The traffic safety project ran from May 23rd through June 6th.

Members of the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office made four felony arrests and seven drug arrests. The sheriff’s office staff also processed seven impaired drivers. Five drivers were impaired on illicit or prescription drugs and two were impaired by alcohol.

A total of two hundred and twelve warnings were issued for traffic violations with ninety coming from speed violations, followed by thirty-seven equipment violations. Thirty-two total citations were issued with twenty-two issued for speeding.

The Creston Police Department reports a woman was arrested Wednesday afternoon, on a Theft charge. 41-year old Carrie Johns, of Creston, faces a charge of 5th Degree Theft. Johns was released from the Law Enforcement Center on a Promise to Appear.

HARTLEY, Iowa (AP) – A former police chief who sued the city of Hartley over his firing has settled the lawsuit. The Sioux City Journal reports the dismissal of Mark Younie’s lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sioux City.

The settlement agreement says the city’s insurance carrier, EMC Cos., will pay Younie $25,000 on behalf of the city. The city will pay Younie’s attorneys $75,000, to be split with Younie in accordance with his contract with the attorneys.

Younie was fired in January 2014, and he sued the city in October 2014. He alleged in the lawsuit that he was fired because he’d filed a grievance alleging a labor law violation. The city said Younie’s firing was unrelated to the grievance.

WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a crash off Interstate 80 stranded a truck driver in an Iowa creek for several hours. The Iowa State Patrol says the crash occurred around 4 a.m. Wednesday near a Waukee exit west of Des Moines. The driver lost control of his semitrailer somehow, and it went down between the bridges over Sugar Creek. The semi landed upside down, with its cargo of produce strewn about.

Bridge construction workers found the man around 11 a.m., lying in the water, about halfway up on some pallets. He was hospitalized. The crash is being investigated.

The City of Atlantic’s three and a half-year old, $12.3-million wastewater treatment plant held up well during the last major rain producing event on May 26^th. Some parts of the City saw in excess of 7-inches of rain that day, causing flooding on streets, and in residential basements as well as businesses.

Wastewater Superintendent Tim Snyder told the City Council during their meeting Wednesday, prior to the May event, December 2015 was the last time the plant dealt with a significant amount of water coming into its 7-million gallon holding tank used for cleaning up the water before it’s discharged into the river. During that month, the plant processed 72-million gallons of storm water runoff.

He says in May, they took in over 80-million gallons, which is one of the highest flows that’s gone through the facility since it was upgraded in 2012. When it was constructed, officials say peak flow capacity for the facility would be 15-million gallons per day. Snyder says the day after the deluge last month, the plant took in 7-million gallons in one day. At least half that flow went into the equalization basin located across the street from the plant. Heavy flows continued for several days afterward, causing the EQ basin to briefly overflow during the weekend of May 28^th-29^th

Tim said their computer calculated 60-thousand gallons were processed, but because there was a “glitch” in the calculations, he estimated there was closer to 600-thousand gallons processed into the EQ basin. He said he’s since spoken with engineers and equipment vendors to see if there is a way to make the plant more efficient to push the water out faster. It turns out they found ways to do just that.

There were also some system adjustments made to certain pieces of equipment, and a new policy written on how to deal with heavy storm water flow, given the adjustments made through system tweaks and fixes.