Atlanta’s utility director says a mysterious black substance fouled the Chattahoochee River last week, causing a fish kill.
Last week’s flash flooding created a triple whammy of misery – flash flooding that stalled traffic downtown, a boil water advisory that city officials said many residents didn’t know about, and then, a grotesque fish kill that fouled the Chattahoochee River for 20 miles south of the city’s water treatment plant.
“We’re dedicated to prove and find out what caused that fish kill,” Watershed Commissioner Greg Eyerly told a city council committee Tuesday. “I saw the fish kill myself and I toured the river with the [Chattahoochee] Riverkeeper. I also saw the black sludge that was on the Chattahoochee River.”…