Sierra Club Report: Giant Fish Blenders: How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways

Giant Fish Blenders: How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways, Sierra Club, August 2011

  • “A power plant with once-through cooling draws hundreds of millions, in some cases billions, of gallons of water each day from the closest lake, river or ocean and indiscriminately sucks in whatever aquatic life is near the intake pipe. In this process, fish and other aquatic life are smashed and mutilated against crude screens (known as “impingement”) or are sucked into the cooling system itself (known as “entrainment”). It is estimated that billions of fish and other aquatic organisms at all stages of life are killed each year by power plants’ water-intake systems.”
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