Poisoned waters…keeping yourself informed….

The equivalent of an Exxon Valdez dumped off our cars into Puget Sound from traffic every couple of years…does that get your attention?

I got a note from the People For Puget Sound about a don’t-miss show on tv tonight…here’s more:

Please take the time tomorrow night at 9 PM to watch the KCTS-9 special Frontline telecast of “Poisoned Waters,” a two-hour examination of the threats facing our Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hedrick Smith interviews Kathy Fletcher and many others in examining the rising hazards to human health and the ecosystem and the difficulty of keeping our waters clean.

According to Smith, “I could not have imagined that there was the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez dumped off our cars into Puget Sound from traffic every couple of years. (Runoff from roads and parking lots funnels at least 6.3 million gallons of petroleum into the Sound every year.) I knew something about dead zones (areas like southern Hood Canal, where marine waters starved of dissolved oxygen essentially suffocate fish and plants). I didn’t know dead zones occupy 40 percent of the main stem of Chesapeake Bay every summer in hot weather, that dead zones are doubling every 10 years in the world, that there’s a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico the size of the state of Massachusetts.” [Seattle Times, 4/20/09]

“Poisoned Waters” underscores the urgency of the work in education, advocacy and restoration People For Puget Sound does on behalf of its supporters and the critters of the Sound. Thanks to your support, People For Puget Sound gets solid results in making the Sound safer and healthier.

Our children deserve clean water. Please watch “Poisoned Waters” and join our campaign to Save Our Sound with a donation to support our education, advocacy and restoration programs.

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