This isn’t good

[Kurt505]

Looks like our fishery is going to take a hit :mad3:


https://edmontonsun.com/news/local-news/significant-chemical-spill-shuts-down-fishing-in-west-central-alberta-rivers/wcm/f1c4bed5-a0dc-42a6-9c80-d42d6d832b75

[dodgeboy1979]

the only thing i see on the AER dashboard is a chlorinated water leak in the area, 4000 m3 on september 10th.

[Kurt505]

Ya, it’s extremely vague to say the least.

[Red Bullets]

If there was no concerns with the chlorine spill they wouldn't have closed the river to fishing. Probably didn't want the anglers hiking around and catching all the dead fish. Let's not forget chlorine in gas form has been used as a chemical weapon.

[EZM]

Keep in mind this was chlorinated water, not straight chlorine based on what the article said. There is a HUGE difference in the impact it would have to the watershed.

I guess unless we know the concentration, rates it was introduced into the river, etc... and don't measure any impacts - we are all guessing here.

Many communities use chlorinated water as their drinking water source. These same communities out chlorine into river every time they run the tap, take a shower, flush the toilet or have a drink of water .....

The effects could be literally so small, they are unable to be measured.

I'm not saying it isn't bad - I'm just cautioning against super media hype.

[dodgeboy1979]

There was no emergency phase reported on this incident so my thoughts are the fishing is closed as a precautionary to allow for proper assessment of the release. The water was likely chlorinated to kill bacteria for fracing or other downhole purposes and will have very small amounts of chlorine. Chlorine also flashes off real fast so hopefully not much entered the water systems.

[fish99]

quite a few years ago there was a fish kill of whitefish and browns in the elbow river below Glenmore res . this was in the fall time . it was on the news and they said they could not find what caused the fish kill. later it was known that there was a huge chlorine spill when back flushing some filters. all the water sampling never showed any signs on chlorine as it was probably in sask by the time of the sampling