Fish Kill Event - East Fork Crooked Creek
Morning Sun
- Event ID
- 788
- Date of Kill
- 8/7/2008
- Waterbody Type
- River/Stream
- Cause Origin
- Anthropogenic
- Cause
- Pesticides/Herbicides
- Mode
- Runoff
- Magnitude
- 5 (10,001 - 25,000 fish killed)
- Estimated Fish Killed
- 14,510
- Kill Length
- 6.98 miles
- Valuation
- $26,244.53
- Investigation Expenses
- $665.33
- County
- Louisa
- ESD Field Office
- FO 6
- Fisheries Office
- Lake Darling State Park
- LongDD
- -91.35154
- LatDD
- 41.08231
- Created Date
- 10/7/2008 1:17:00 PM
- Last Update
- 3/27/2019 8:24:59 AM
Impacted Assessment Segments
Lat/Long uses WGS84 datum
Highlighted river segments indicate those impacted in part or whole by this fish kill event. It is not meant to represent the actual extent of the kill.
Onsite Comments
Appears to have been caused by aerial spraying of fungicide. Sample results indicated a concentration of 29ppb of pyraclostrobin. Literature indicates this product is acutely toxic to aquatic life at ~11ppb. No responsible party identified. Appears to be fungicide named Headline. In this case it was both aerial spraying and truck-based spraying.