Flat Creek is filled with soybeans. Now the fish are dying. - Gainesville Times

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Flat Creek is filled with soybeans. Now the fish are dying.

Chattahoochee Riverkeeper headwaters watershed specialist Becca Risser stands in several feet of soybeans Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, that were spilled into Flat Creek. - photo by Scott Rogers

08132022 soybeans 3.jpg — Chattahoochee Riverkeeper headwaters watershed specialist Becca Risser stands in several feet of soybeans Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, that were spilled into Flat Creek. - photo by Scott Rogers

Clad in waders, Becca Risser slowly stepped down Friday, Aug. 12, into the waist-deep water of Flat Creek in the Georgia Avenue area of Gainesville.