Beware Tire Pollution

On December 3, the Los Angeles Times published an extended article that we all should read. A long-term scientific study about the die-off of 50 percent of coho salmon in Washington State each year, the study consensus determined, was due to a preservative used in tire manufacturing. This is in the tire material that cars leave on the streets. This material is going into the waters that house the salmon and killing half of them! I guarantee you that they are not the only sea life affected by this killer material.

There is no doubt that the tire rub-off that cars produce here, along with other poison, goes into our storm drains and finds its way into the ocean and into the stomach of anything that lives in or is from the ocean. It no doubt kills or poisons a great percentage of local sea life and is not all that healthy for people who venture into the ocean.

I have written council after council and discussed the fact that great swaths of our city, including our street for the last 40 years, have no street sweeper service. It has fallen on deaf ears for the entire time.