Groups continue investigating Chattahoochee River fish kill

Dead Striped Bass observed by WRD staff in the Chattahoochee River downstream of Peachtree Creek.
Dead striped bass observed by WRD staff in the Chattahoochee River downstream of Peachtree Creek.

(Photo courtesy of Georgia DNR WRD report)

Weeks after the fish kill on the Chattahoochee River, the City of Atlanta, state and nonprofits are still researching the causes. 

The City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management Commissioner Greg Eyerly said on top of its own investigation, the city has hired an independent investigator to complete its own analysis. 

“We’ve been able to eliminate a couple of potential sources, and so it’s that process of elimination,” Eyerly said. “We’re still in the discovery phase of that, getting all of our information together, all our data, interviewing staff about what happened, what were the sequence of events, looking at our laboratory results.”