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Trout Unlimited Canada’s Yellow Fish Road
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Members of the North Battleford Scouts are among volunteers who have been swarming North Battleford, painting yellow fish on storm drains in an effort to raise pollution awareness. Photo by Dustin Saracini

If you see yellow fish around storm drains in North Battleford, it’s for a reason.

Members of North Battleford Scouts and community members have been out in force recently, painting fish as a reminder that only water is supposed to be going down the drains, as they connect directly to local streams, rivers and lakes.

The work was their contribution to the Trout Unlimited Canada’s Yellow Fish Road program.

In most cities, storm drains do not connect to the sewage treatment plant. Materials like oil, salt, soap and fertilizer that runs off  lawns, driveways, sidewalks and roads goes directly untreated into a local water body.

Scouter with the North Battleford Scouts, Sarah Thompson, talks about the members of the community who helped their week-long cause.

“We’ve had 75 youth and adults come out and they have hit all over North Battleford … The City of Regina and the City of Calgary helped us out by sending us new materials because they are Yellow Fish Road Project Partners.”

For more information about the program visit www.tucanada.org.