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Rainwater containing toxic chemicals is washing off roads, entering rivers and killing fish. A few thoughts.
A substance called 6PPD-quinone, which leaches out of particles shed by tyres, is a major fish killer, but... (1/7) https://www.endsreport.com/article/1704134/alarming-toxic-tyre-particles-road-runoff-fatal-fish-study-finds
A substance called 6PPD-quinone, which leaches out of particles shed by tyres, is a major fish killer, but... (1/7) https://www.endsreport.com/article/1704134/alarming-toxic-tyre-particles-road-runoff-fatal-fish-study-finds
...it's just one of many nasty substances in runoff, including copper, zinc, lead and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at levels well above legal limits (2/7)
Highway England's thousands of outfalls and soakaways are not regulated and therefore not monitored, so ain't nothing gonna change. (Road runoff also gets into rivers via storm overflows (CSOs)) (3/7)
In fact, regulators are ignoring the 'horrific and poisonous' road runoff, insiders told me, "brushing it under the carpet" (4/7)
https://www.endsreport.com/article/1675770/exclusive-regulators-ignoring-horrific-poisonous-road-runoff-say-ea-insiders
https://www.endsreport.com/article/1675770/exclusive-regulators-ignoring-horrific-poisonous-road-runoff-say-ea-insiders
Little wonder all our rivers are failing to meet legal water quality standards, with chems a major problem (5/7) https://www.endsreport.com/article/1694741/englands-rivers-fail-meet-legal-water-quality-standards
Disposal of tyres and rubber crumb used in artificial turf suggest both human and ecological exposures to 6PPD-quinone and related chemicals "merit attention”, say the study's authors.
I'll say. (6/7)
I'll say. (6/7)
And with some of the runoff chemicals being mutagenic and carcinogenic, shouldn't we be testing for these are part of bathing water monitoring? As @stormwater_jo points out, "no one wants to be swimming in that!" (6.5/7)
Food for thought for @CommonsEAC @Dunne4Ludlow's inquiry into water pollution.
