Hundreds of
dead fish and black water have
led a multi-agency investigation team to a submerged pipeline in
Louisiana's Washington Parish along Pearl River that flows into the
Gulf of Mexico but investigators now want to know what is in the black
water, draining into the
Gulf of Mexico dead zone stench and suffocation, topic of a recent conference.
‘There’s got to be something wrong with the bayou,’
said Mike
Tardo, owner of Tardo Hair Designs, 601 W. Second St. in Thibodaux
earlier on Wednesday after hundreds of dead fish and turtles had been
reported on Monday and Tuesday prompting a Louisiana and Mississippi
multi-agency investigation.
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
reported to
WWLTV that "effects from the water" are seen all the way to Walkiah Bluff, Miss., 40-50 miles down river.
Officials had said water out of the pipeline, just above Richardson
Landing, leading to Temple Inland paper mill is making the water black
and filmy
according to WWL but whether the mill is the cause is yet to be determined.
"Officials haven't determined if the mill is definitely the cause
of the fish kill along the Pearl and won't know conclusively until test
results are returned, but they said the water coming out of the pipeline
that leads to the mill is making the water black and filmy."
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