Fish killed in salmon-bearing creek after
pool water dumped into storm drain
The Canadian Press
October 05 2012
VANCOUVER - A fish kill in Vancouver's last
wild salmon-bearing stream is being blamed on ignorance.
Staff with the Musqueam First Nation say
the incident happened in the last week of September as fisheries workers were
checking discharge from a storm sewer on the edge of the reserve in southwest
Vancouver.
Musqueam fisheries manager Richard Sparrow
says the workers noted a strong smell of chlorine coming from Musqueam Creek
and found more than 1,000 dead spine stickleback, coho salmon and rainbow
trout.
The workers followed a hose back to a home
in a nearby upscale development where Sparrow says the residents were pumping
out their swimming pool, sending the chlorinated water gushing into the storm
sewer.
He says it's difficult that negligence has
set back years of restoration work on the creek and wants to emphasize the
damage caused when household chemicals are dumped into storm sewers.
LINK(via: Winnipeg Free Press)
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