This
video shows how man’s negligence can have serious environmental impacts. A
construction crew in Boone, NC decided to seal a newly paved parking lot right
before a major rainstorm. When the rain came the sealant rain off into nearby Hodge’s
creek. This killed every living organism for a substantial distance. This small
creek runs to the New River which is the world’s 2nd oldest river.
If this crew had waited than the sealant could have been applied safely but
instead they opted for the “easy way out” and defenseless living creatures paid
the price. This story really hit home for me because I live a mere fifteen
minutes away from Hodge’s creek. One of my favorite streams to fish is right
next to Hodge’s, If the sludge had gone just a little farther both of the major
river systems in the area (the New and Watauga) would have been affected.
The images in the video were quite disturbing. The sealant that they put on the parking lot was so thick and it's really sad that so much ran off into the nearby creek. I don't understand, like you've stated, why the crews couldn't wait to put the sealant on in order to prevent this from happening to the creek. It's not fair to not only the fish but the other organisms living in this creek to be killed and diseased just because of this sealant. There was an image in the video of a woman picking up some of the sealant that never dried that was still wet. It was so thick so I couldn't even imagine how awful that was for the organisms being affected in the creek.
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