(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Several hours after county and municipal trucks began spreading salt on area streets and freeways in this week’s snowstorm, the salt was detected in urban rivers and streams by a series of water quality monitoring gauges, an environmental official at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District said Wednesday.
Chloride concentrations in Honey Creek in Wauwatosa rose to levels that could kill fish and other aquatic life on Tuesday afternoon and remained at toxic levels until Wednesday morning, said Chris Magruder, the district’s community environmental liaison. More