Austin Found Podcast
Austin Found Podcast
Austin American-Statesman
Ep.02: 1960s fish kill was our own ’Silent Spring’
16 minutes Posted Mar 11, 2020 at 1:33 am.
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One of the most spectacular fish kills in history hit the Colorado River in 1961 was traced to an East Austin “insect powder” factory. Green activist Rachel Carson told the basic story in “Silent Spring,” but it has been lost to popular memory even as Austin became an environmental mecca. Until now.