Beaver Creek Fish Kill

[Seth Denbo]

Not sure if others have seen this awful news from earlier this week about a major fish kill impacting the FFO section and other parts of Beaver Creek in Washington County: 

https://news.yahoo.com/maryland-dnr-mde-investigating-fish-211528390.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm91cHMuaW8v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJWF7QO-ECuB2zTyZu1bPGEpxOGaIVRMgpKAonNWOsLn_Wovih9Qr9i3GwqofldtwqqLHGVd5JGPAItNzFY7jG-MiS5aG4Wh4XuC_iuLopxHVLzvLxCUzL4fyEGOdVM-XCQsznfTPvC_QsGuIUbsIu4S9R_AzFw8O-z94rXZtnAT

[Owen Williams]

Thanks for sharing this news, Seth. 

I hope they can figure this one out, and soon. Curious that the affected area seems to be downstream of I-70 and connected to a high water event. Maybe a dangerous chemical got spilled and flushed into the creek, but the surge should have diluted it.

Best, 

Owen

[Doug Graebner]

That or a dangerous chemical got disturbed *by* the surge and in sufficient quantities that the surge was not enough to dilute it.

[rfa...@gmail.com]

Could be anything.  Someone in the homes above the creek could’ve emptied a swimming pool, or a spill washed something off the highway, or maybe someone did a massive lawn or crop chemical treatment that washed into the creek.

 

They took samples Thursday and should have results in a week or 2.

 

R

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