A security officer sweeps an incoming car with a bomb-detection device at the Iowa Fertilizer plant in Wever on 7-21-15. Photo by Joe Bates.
Lee County Emergency Management Coordinator Steve Cirinna has confirmed that the Iowa Fertilizer Plant Construction Site in Wever is being evacuated after a bomb threat was discovered Monday.
A press release from the Lee County Sheriff’s Department says that a message was found Monday afternoon scrawled on the wall of a Port-A-Potty reading “A bomb will go off tomorrow at 12:00”.
Law enforcement and security are still searching cars on the way in to the plant, and workers reported several-hour long delays heading in to work this morning. A safety team from the Iowa Fertilizer Company has searched the construction site; they found no suspicious items or packages as of 8:30 this morning.
Around 11:00, plant officials evacuated the entire facility. No word yet on whether or not a threat was discovered.
The plant is not yet in operation, and no combustible materials are present in the storage tanks.
The State Fire Marshal’s Office is sending a bomb sniffing dog to the plant.
