Hey everyone sorry that I haven’t posted in a while. This entry I’m not doing Baseball Highlights because I have some great news. The fish in our creek are back! It has almost been a year since we haven’t had fish in the creek. Last year “someone” thought they could get away with dumping “something” into our creek and we wouldn’t notice. Well I was the first to notice. Me being me I took total advantage of fish being in our creek; it was great I could go fishing every day. It was a normal day and I went down to the creek to fish and when I got there I couldn’t believe it. The water was dark and murky and I think every single fish and minnow that lived in the creek was dead and floating on the surface of the creek. We have a water treatment plant not far from our farm and we suspected they had a leak and the leak reached the creek. My parents called the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and they sent out a team from the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) to come to our farm to see the problem. We soon found out that whatever was dumped into the creek absorbed all the oxygen in the water killing only things that could breathe underwater. There were still frogs and turtles in the creek because they breathe from the same oxygen we do. The DNR followed the creek to see how far spread the fish kill was. Once they were done they said it was a 2 mile fish kill! They said the possible suspects were the Water Treatment Plant, or our neighbors who have a Dairy right down the dirt road from us. They took a water sample from the creek and left. My Mom and I did some research on today’s Dairy Farms. According to the World Wide Web Big Dairy Factories like our neighbors have a problem with finding the right place to dispose their cows manure. Dairies have lots of cows and when you have lots of cows means there's lots of manure. Some Dairies sink so low to try and get rid of the stuff that they pump the manure through the water that they water their cows with. Gee I wonder where Mad Cow Disease comes from. So our theory is that the Dairy dumped cow manure into the creek so they could get rid of it and think they could get away with it. It makes perfect sense; we are the first people to live on our dirt road so before we moved here the Diary could dump whatever they want in the creek and no one would know.

Was it from the Water Treatment Plant and it accidentally sprung a leak or is that exactly what the Diary wants us to think. What do you think?

Here are some links if you want to learn more

The Meatrix

Factory Farms

NO NAIS

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Sam