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Observations
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| Location | Date | Time, Tide | Observations | | Seekonk River at the Boys and Girls Club of
Pawtucket | 4 Oct. 2008 | 10:40am, high+4.5 | Freshwater.
Many dead fish, decomposing along the shore and floating in the water.
About 1ft in length. Fish were not intact, mostly in bits and pieces.
Some appeared to have been eaten, possibly by birds. Trash along the
shore, fishermen. | | 15 Nov. 2008 | 8:05am, high+6.1 | No dead fish. Trash in the water. | Bristol
at Roger
Williams
University (RWU) | 4 Oct. 2008 | 11:30am, high+4.1 | About
6 dead fish on the shore, intact. About 10in in length, deeper bodied
than at last location. Otherwise appears clean and well flushed. | | 15 Nov. 2008 | 8:45am, high+5.6 | High water, reaches the road. | | Seekonk
River
at India
Point
Park | 4 Oct. 2008 | 12:30pm, high+4.5 | A lot of trash along the shore and in the water, smells badly. Marina closeby, adjacent to Rt. 195. | | 15 Nov. 2008 | 9:20am, high+6.1 | Same conditions as last visit. | | Greenwich
Bay
at Greenwich Bay Marina | 4 Oct. 2008 | 12:50pm, high+4.1 | Not very well flushed. Marina: boats, minnows in the water, birds on shore. Fisherman. | | 15 Nov. 2008 | 9:40am, high+5.5 | Oily water. | | Narragansett at the University of Rhode Island
Graduate School of Oceanography (URI GSO) | 4 Oct. 2008 | 1:30pm, high+3.2 | Area appears to be well flushed, red algae washed up on shore. | | 15 Nov. 2008 | 10:10am, high+4.4 | Same conditions as last visit, no red algae. | | Wakefield
at East Matunuk State Beach | 4 Oct. 2008 | 2:00pm, high+3.8 | Area appears to be well flushed, no longer in the bay area. | | 15 Nov. 2008 | 10:30am, high+4.2 | Same conditions as last visit. |
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