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SEATTLE AREA SALMON ARE LOADED WITH ANTI-DEPRESSANTS & OTHER DRUGS
FROM HUMAN SEWAGE
(What about fish in the Chattahoochee River?
BY ELAISHA STOKES
 The everyday chemicals that humans ingest to relieve pain, fight depression and diabetes, or treat infection are winding up in the tissue of fish in Washington's Puget Sound.
A study in the journal Environmental Pollution detected unusually high levels of drugs like Advil, Benadryl, Prozac, and even birth control pills, in the tissue of salmon.
The culprit, according to the study, is human waste.
"About 45 of the 150 chemicals we examined were found in the fish," said James Meador, the lead author of the study and an aquatic toxicologist working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Some of them were at high concentrations. That's the kind of information that raises eyebrows."
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APRIL 29, 2016
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Are state and local regulators overly aggressive at enforcing land disturbance permits established to protect their watersheds? If you're a land developer paying for the design, installation and maintenance of erosion, sedimentation and pollution control plans (ES&PC Plans) and the fines that accompany improper compliance efforts, you might say "Yes"; but if you're a resident living in a nice house on the lake that fills with sediment every time it rains, you would probably say "NO". 
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