Hydro company to pay 0k for spill of artificial turf in Puyallup River
A Washington hydroelectric company will contribute more than $400,000 to water quality and salmon habitat improvements, and pay $100,200 in fines, ...
A Washington hydroelectric company will contribute more than $400,000 to water quality and salmon habitat improvements, and pay $100,200 in fines, for a summer 2020 spill of used athletic field turf bits into the Puyallup River. In late July 2020, Electron Hydro was working to update a more than 100-year-old dam. A former employee alerted the public via social media that the company had used old artificial turf, discarded at a nearby rock quarry, to line the riverbed. The turf and its crumb rubber material are toxic when ingested by fish and other aquatic life.