Billy Frank, Jr. at Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission says what’s killing our fish is a poison soup of brake pad dust, oil, gasoline and other pollutants that are washed by rain or melting snow from yards, sidewalks, parking lots and roads, right into our streams and Puget Sound.
These stormwater permits have already been delayed by the political process. They need to move forward, and soon. Puget Sound chinook have been on the Endangered Species Act list for more than a decade, yet there have been no substantial improvements to the environmental laws that got us into the problem to begin with. That needs to change, and the stormwater permitting process is a step in the right direction.
Read the rest of the story at:
http://nwifc.org/2012/04/stop-the-slow-down-to-save-puget-sound/
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