The latest report on a massive fish kill on the Chattahoochee River in May says nearly 45,000 fish died thanks to combined sewer overflow and stormwater flowing from an emergency release tunnel at the height of rush hour traffic.
The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s report from Wednesday said that sewage and stormwater overflowed from the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management’s West Area Tunnel for more than five hours, putting almost six million gallons of untreated or minimally treated sewage and stormwater into Peachtree Creek.
The report was published by the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, saying that the only impacted section of the Chattahoochee in Georgia was a stretch of river from Peachtree Creek to the City of south Fulton…