Dead tide
Subtitle: mercury spill
By: Alvin Leaphart
Publisher: [CreateSpace Publishing]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781479182176
Subjects: Mercury wastes; Fiction; Environmental disasters; Murder
Description: TRACCO, a chlorine and caustic manufacturer which uses mercury in its production process, pumps several thousand tons of sludge containing mercury into a creek which runs into Turtle River, near Brunswick, Georgia. Turtle River is a major sport and commercial fishing area. An environmental catastrophe occurs. People who live along the waterway begin to get sick from mercury poisoning.