Sound Transit installs mesh cages to stop fish deaths under I-90 light rail

Sound Transit said Thursday it’s installing 13 mesh tube cages to wrap around a device believed to be killing fish.

In August, Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine announced that an unusual number of fish, including salmon, had been discovered on the bottom of Lake Washington near the 2 Line’s Crosslake Connection on the I-90 floating bridge.

The suspected culprit: underwater wires, called anode strings. The wires are connected to floating pontoons that emit electrical currents that prevent the steel and concrete from corroding…

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