Thousands of dead fish appear in the Salado river in Mexico

Thousands of dead fish appeared overnight at the Salt River, which happened to have its clean and clear waters, green and with a strong smell of rotten.

Producers Association filed Rio Salado Conagua a written complaint for fear that “someone” has launched its waters some chemical or pollutant.

Trinidad Benavides, president of irrigation users Salado River, said on Tuesday 8 April, one of his farm workers reported that the water was greenish, because Sunday was still clean and almost crystalline.

“The worker saw that the water had changed color. There were lots of dead fish and scavengers were feasting, “said Benavides.

The contaminated water was detected in the Rancho Santa Cecilia and La Trinidad, and on Wednesday, had reached La Coma, about five miles downstream. Farmers and producers decided to stop irrigating pastures for cattle, for fear of causing ecological damage.

“We do not know how it could affect domestic and wild species of this region, the main trough are the waters of this river (Salado),” Benavides, who did get a letter to Carlos Torres Rodriguez, Chief Operating and Conservation Districts expressed Irrigation 004 and 005 based in Ciudad Anahuac, Nuevo Leon.

Farmers and producers fear that the contaminated water to reach further progress Falcon Dam, it is international.

Since the area was detected as contaminated and to the Falcon, at least there are 50 ranches.

Yesterday, they ruled that a contaminant has been dragged into the Salado River, because there have been no heavy rains.

This is the second time that a phenomenon of this kind is recorded. In 2012 there was a similar case where the water turned greenish and strong smells, but this time the contamination began about four miles west of State Road.