Fish kill

[fatbillybob]

Amazing! We need to fix this...

Every time a hard rain rinses the road into one Seattle creek, about 80 percent of the young coho salmon below go belly up within a day

A chemical in every car tire reacts with ozone, then stormwater carries it into Seattle-area streams where it kills up to 80% of juvenile coho salmon befo

www.ecoportal.net

 

[VMP]

Good to keep this issue on the forefront, see a previous thread on this for more information:

Thread 'Tire chemicals and coho'

Nov 6, 2023

This popped up in my news feed yesterday.
It’s been discussed before on the board.
SF

U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes

Federal regulators will review the use of a chemical found in tires after a petition from Native American tribes in California and Washington state.

apnews.com

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Also some progress on mitigation, still issues of implementation at scale and removing the source by hopefully using a substitute, one can only hope...

Post in thread 'Tire chemicals and coho'

May 25, 2026

Inspiring stuff, it will take more than one method to mitigate the impact of years of toxic chemicals usage on coho and other species, great to see younger generations working on innovative and creative alternatives.

Western Washington Student Wins Award For Hydrosponge That Captures Coho-killing Pollutant -

Kudos to a Bellevue high school student who figured out an effective and cheaper way to remove a coho-killing chemical from stormwater runoff and was recently awarded $75,000 for her idea.

nwsportsmanmag.com

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