I was sampling to see if the hexavalent chromium component of the reactor coolant in the groundwater plumes had reached the nests of incubating king salmon eggs. At 10 μg/L, hex chrome is lethal to fish, and we got a hit of 845 μg/L seeping into the river within these chinook salmon redd gravels,
The DOE Chief science advisor firm, (I cannot ID here) stated no reactor site contaminated groundwater has discharged to the Reach, since they have been monitoring over the past half century or so with groundwater monitoring wells. I found some, which attracted a lot of attention from the Yakima, Nez Perce and Umatilla tribes.when the tribes found out, oh boy, that's another story for another day.
Anyway, the point of this post inspired by your discussion of highly radioactive discharges to a fishery is, even though I know water is a barrier to RADS, I couldn't help but wonder what the levels of strontium 90 and tritium exposures I was swimming in might have been. Those dives were in '95-'96, and I'm still here with no Hanford ill effects, which some poor chaps working landslide can't say to this day.
I'm big into keeping abreast of the sad world of collapsing worldwide fisheries, and those Fukushima impacts to the critters, so thanks for the read.
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