Gone Fishing

Read the article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram about the Trinity River fish.

Remember, it's our air and our water...

And some of the highest poisonous readings of polychlorinated biphenyls -- or PCBs -- were found at sample sites in Tarrant County.

"I think we've done irreparable damage," Brian Smith, who owns about 700 acres of preserved ranchland along the river in Navarro County south of Dallas, said during a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality meeting Wednesday in Arlington.

Among the highest PCB readings were results at testing sites in Fort Worth -- one near North Beach Street, the other near Handley Road -- and another near Farm Road 157 near the Fort Worth/Arlington border, a consultant explained during the Arlington meeting.

Another spectator, Libby Willis, president of the Oakhurst Neighborhood Association, raised a concern about plans to use Riverside Park in north Fort Worth to store excavated soil during the proposed Central City/Trinity Uptown project, which includes relocation of a portion of the river for flood control.

"If there are PCBs in the soil, why would you put it in a park, of all places?" she asked.

Willis also noted that signs warning that fish in the Trinity River should not be eaten had been removed. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said the signs most likely had been stolen.