Popular Iowa Massive Truck Stop Hit With $390,000 Fine

A chunk of change is coming out of one truck stop.

Iowa's popular I-80 Truckstop ("World's Largest") has been hit with a fine from the EPA, according to the Des Moines Register.

The place is something to see, it's far beyond a regular truck stop. There's a truck repair garage, a movie theater, laundromat, museum of trucking, a chiropractor, and all kinds of stuff.

Why It's Facing A Fine

The truckstop's sister station is Joplin 44 in Missouri. Both it and the Iowa 80 stop did not have "an adequate plan for addressing a potential fuel spill" in place, according to the EPA.

So because of that, the stations' owner Iowa 80 Group Inc., is paying a combined $390,784 for violating the federal Clean Water Act for facilities that have over 1,320 gallons of oil products in above-ground storage tanks (both facilities have over 1 million gallons of above-ground fuel, gas, lubricants, and oil). The Iowa stop is $204,142 of that fine, while the Missouri stop is $186,642.

Iowa 80 Group Inc. said that they've hired a new firm to work on it's spill prevention plan to make sure it meets EPA standards. They say that they haven't had a spill and that the second containment of the storage tanks would retain the fuel in the event of a tank failure.

Inspections violating the Clean Water Act were caught in 2023. The EPA said that a spill on the Iowa side could contaminate Mud Creek, which flows into the Mississippi and Cedar Rivers.