Fish Die After Area Is Contaminated
From Times Wire Reports
An eight-mile stretch of contamination, apparently from a distillery fire last week, has caused a massive fish kill on the Kentucky River, an official said in Frankfort, Ky. A plume of contamination permeated the river from surface to bottom. “It’s sucking all the oxygen out of the water, and fish are dying,” said Mark York, a spokesman for the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet. “It’s pretty much wiping out everything that’s in the river.”
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