90% of Herrington fish sampled show selenium poisoning?

[GeoFisher]

I really hate that such a hefty fine, was placed on the two companies for polluting the water supply, 25,000.00 man the state sure was trying to get their attention, surely they didn't mean to ignore the clean water regulations, it's just so hard for the companies to get the job done, with all the
clean air and drinking water rules and regulations Obama has placed in their way, but it looks like Trump will fix it..



http://www.vox.com/energy-and-enviro...pa-regulations

Well the CURRENT regulations sure helped, didn't they?

25 thousand.........GET REAL......it should have been 25 million...........

but don't try to blame trump and his current plans for eliminating the EPA. The CURRENT EPA didn't do crap to protect this waterway.

[stripernut1]

It wouldnt matter if someone posted they caught bluegill in a farm pond....it would somehow turn into a political war complete with name calling and disrespect and whatever.
This is exhausting. Im done for good. Best of luck to all, tight lines. Hope to see you all on the water someday.

[DJD]

It wouldnt matter if someone posted they caught bluegill in a farm pond....it would somehow turn into a political war complete with name calling and disrespect and whatever.
This is exhausting. Im done for good. Best of luck to all, tight lines. Hope to see you all on the water someday.

Unfortunately this is very political and it can/will impact people who stay on top of this in regards to eating the fish. Some won't care/uninformed and will eat the fish regardless. I always lean toward not eating fish from any lake in this state. I have had a meal or two through the years at fish frys of crappie, catfish or walleye but it's not a plan of mine to catch fish to eat. To each his own!

[kstonich]

It wouldnt matter if someone posted they caught bluegill in a farm pond....it would somehow turn into a political war complete with name calling and disrespect and whatever.
This is exhausting. Im done for good. Best of luck to all, tight lines. Hope to see you all on the water someday.

I agree it is so bad, everyone needs to calm down. I cant watch TV anymore with all the political crap from both sides.
Members can't you please save the political crap for a different forums location. I come here to read reports and lake info., not this juvenile slamming of each others parties .

[waterdog101]

Well the CURRENT regulations sure helped, didn't they?

25 thousand.........GET REAL......it should have been 25 million...........

but don't try to blame trump and his current plans for eliminating the EPA. The CURRENT EPA didn't do crap to protect this waterway.

25k was just a slap on the wrist, anyone should know that, my post was sarcasm toward our state, big companies will bypass any regulations that hurt their bottom line, even if it harm every person in this country, can you imagine how much worse it will be, when the regulations are removed or relaxed.

[Shellkat]

at that price its cheaper to pollute than fix the problem

[slamson71]

Where/ who says that 90% of fish sampled have selenium poisoning? How many fish did they sample? Where on the lake did these fish get sampled from, or was it all over? What kind of fish were sampled? How many other lakes are like this or have any other lakes been sampled? How was it the fault of the companies? I believe that these facts are something we need to check on before making up our minds.


^^^^ I had not read crappypappie's comment before posting this

[smashdn]

it's just so hard for the companies to get the job done, with all the
clean air and drinking water rules and regulations Obama has placed in their way, but it looks like Trump will fix it..

KY is a state plan state. We have the KY DEP not EPA. DEP regs have to be as stringent or more so than EPA REGS.

[Buzzy]

This is bull. Everyone should care about this. It is not even up for debate we should not be doing this to our water. The dollar is not worth the world.

[waterdog101]

KY is a state plan state. We have the KY DEP not EPA. DEP regs have to be as stringent or more so than EPA REGS.

your right, Ky writes their own rules and regulations, that they enforce on companies/industries to keep our waters clean, and the EPA checks the Ky written rules/regulations and if the EPA don't except Ky's rules/regulations as doing enough, to keep our waters clean, Ky has to rewrite them so they do more to protect our waters.

[Buzzy]

http://www.lrc.ky.gov/whoswho/hsedist.htm

click on that link to find your county rep. All you need to do is shoot them an email saying you are upset about the water. Squeaky wheel gets the oil.

[Buzzy]

Here is a list of bills purposed in the house for 2017 in KY. You can know who is ruining your water or you can make it stop.

http://kyconservation.org/?page_id=3073