Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of juvenile Chinook salmon were found dead in the lower Yuba River after a large water pipe burst at the New Colgate Powerhouse on Friday, according to a local conservation group.
Aaron Zettler-Mann, executive director of South Yuba River Citizens League, explained that flows on the lower Yuba River briefly fell following the rupture, stranding young salmon in the rocks along the shore.
“You work so hard and you spend so much time and energy and resources trying to bring these species back, and then there’s a terrible accident. It’s hard not to feel like a little bit of that hard work is undone,” Zettler-Mann said…