Down the Duwamish: A Different Kind of Canoe Trip
30 Nov
For most of us, our canoe trips are taken on the cleaner, wilder waterways that grace our continent.
For reporter Colin McDonald of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, his paddle down Washington’s Duwamish river, a federal Super Fund site, was a voyage into the polluted heart of the beast.
As a part of the paper’s extensive, three-part examination of the Duwamish, McDonald paddled a length of the river and filed THIS report on what he found.
In it he says:
“We watch the bow of the canoe cut through sheens of oil as we duck under piers and around the hulls of ships. We see booms and absorption pads left over from a cleanup of a couple hundred gallons of biodiesel that spilled the week before.”
