The Iowa Fertilizer Plant.
Workers are returning to the Iowa Fertilizer Plant construction site in Wever today after it was evacuated yesterday following a bomb threat found on Monday.
Iowa Fertilizer Company Officials were searching cars throughout the morning yesterday. Workers waited for hours in long lines of traffic, the result of those searches.
At around 11:30, plant officials issued an order to evacuate the facility, once again causing long lines and traffic gridlock.
The bomb threat was discovered scrawled on the wall of a Port-A-Potty on Monday, saying that a “bomb will go off at 12:00 tomorrow”.
Fertilizer Company Officials told Lee County Sheriff Jim Sholl that no threat was discovered, and that the evacuation was precautionary as bomb sniffing dogs made their way through the massive plant site.
No combustible fertilizer materials were present in the plant facility, which is not yet in operation.
