Snake River Fish Kill Cause: It's no myth, just call us Lith

Makena G.
Nina G.
Nicolette G.

       After reveiwing our data in scenario 1, the fish-kill still appeared to be unclear. However after more extensive research we figured out the cause of the fish-kill. We noticed an abnormal amount of rainfall during the month of August, coincidentally the month before the fish kill started and we noticed there there was pesticides the month before and during the fish kill. Finally, we reached our conclusion that the increase in rainfall contributed to a high water flow causing pesticides to wash into the river, thus killing the fish. In scenario 2, we conclude that the fish kill was also caused by rainfall except, the rainfall caused nitrate to wash into the river, rather than pesticides. Both of these reasonings lead to the fish kill in Snake River.