The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet said Monday it plans to cite the company that owns Barton 1792 Distillery after a warehouse collapsed last week, causing bourbon to leak into a creek and kill hundreds of fish.

Cabinet spokesman John Mura said Sazerac, the New-Orleans based company that owns the distillery, will be cited for "failing to report the incident in a timely manner" and "polluting the waterways of the commonwealth."

Mura said the citations could lead to a $25,000 fine per day and per incident.

A Sazerac spokeswoman did not immediately return a phone call left Monday.

On Friday, a seven-story warehouse at Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown collapsed, spilling an unknown amount of alcohol into the grounds and waterways. At least 9,000 barrels from the structure built in the 1940s hit the ground, according to officials.

Approximately 800 fish were killed by alcohol flowing into a nearby stream and river.

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Sazerac said in a news release Friday that it could be weeks before a full assessment of the damage to the warehouse is completed. The cause of the collapse has not been announced.

A statement from the company Friday said it "took proactive measures to access and contain the damage immediately" and that "the distillery team implemented a number of actions to minimize any environmental risk."

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Neighbors who live next to multiple Barton warehouses told Courier Journal they are scared of other warehouses collapsing in the future.

"That makes it scary living here," Stephanie Elliott, a 38-year-old mother of three told the Courier Journal. "If it had been this one and not that one it would have taken out our house, or worse."

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