What's the status of the river? Still dead or slowly recovering?
JIMMYD
Don Ordes wrote:
That's really sad. Is it recovering?
-----Original Message----- From: Neville Gosling
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 3:50 PM
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Subject: [VFB] Another river gone
I forgot to mention that one river that I used to fish for steelhead
was affected by a deadly train derailment in 2005 when a total of nine
cars derailed, including a car carrying sodium hydroxide solution.
The resulting spill of the Sodium Hydroxide (common names: caustic
soda or lye) - 40,000 litres of 73% solution occurred in a sensitive
river environment home to many species of fish and wildlife. The
impacts of the spill on the fish species were devastating, as
virtually all free swimming fish occupying the Cheakamus River at the
time of the spill were killed. More than 500,000 adult and young
salmon, steelhead, trout, lamprey and other species died of
suffocation from skin burns and gill haemorrhaging. Birds and animals
that rely on the Cheakamus salmon for food were also affected by the
spill. The Cheakamus River is a tributary of the steelhead bearing
Squamish river and that too was also affected.
I have not fished the Cheakamus river since the spill.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver
BC Canada
The Enbridge pipeline is a project so toxic that it brings global
shame to Canada.
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