90% of Herrington fish sampled show selenium poisoning?

[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

[GeoFisher]

I wonder if there is a way to determine if this is new or old pollution.

Holding ponds have been around that lake for years. Newer ponds and regulations are significantly better than older ponds and regulations.

Maybe it is just a MESS and they finally started leaking, and the old ponds and systems need to be repaired, and maybe the newer stuff is just fine.

I wonder how you can get a REAL answer..........

[smashdn]

dye trace

[waterdog101]

I grew up in the coal fields, no one had water that was pumped from a lake in our area back then, a few homes in the area had drilled wells in their yard, my grandmother had a well in her yard, it had good water but didn't produce enough to do the washing, she did the clothes washing on Saturday, and my job was to carry the wash water from an old mine opening about a thousand feet from our house, the water that ran from that old mine ran year round, it was crystal clear, yet it left an orange color on the bottom of the stream, I would get thirsty from carrying the wash water or playing in the area and drink from the old mine, it was clear and cold but had a bitter taste, everyone from the area always called it sulphur water, over the years of my youth I would think, I've drank many gallons of the sulphur water, as long as you are drinking it you can't taste the sulphur, but the after taste after you drink your fill is really bitter,

[Toy]

That bitter taste if from the acidic nature of the water, a characteristic of mine drainage. And the orange residue in the stream isn't sulfur, although that may have been the term used to describe it. The residue is iron hydroxide that's precipitating out. The reason that water is so clear is that it has nothing living in it. The acid content , along with the toxic metals like chromium, cadmium, lead, arsenic, etc., don't allow any algae growth.

Clear water isn't necessarily clean

[Buzzy]

I think there are a large amount of people who would be surprised what is is their water around their home. Just get a home test kit if you want the very basic results.

Kentucky is lucky because it has vast amounts of beautiful country and winding rivers. WE need to make sure they stay that way.

If you really love the outdoors you will care about the quality of the water so you do not poison your grand children's children.

[crappiepappy]

I'll play devil's advocate on this (but not to diminish the severity of the problem) :

I'd like to know -

How many fish were tested
What species of fish were tested
Where those fish were taken from

Seems to me, considering the location of the power plant being so close to the dam ... and the water flow towards the dam ... that a lot of that "polluted" water should be localized.

And something else that may prove to be a problem, if in fact the polluted water IS being washed thru the dam, is that the Dix River trout population would be receiving as much or more chemical pollution as the area between the coal ash drainage & the dam.

And chemical pollution from the power plant is only one factor ... considering all the stuff that's dumped into the lake (from all parts of it), and the hundreds of old 55gal drums that have been sunk in that lake, containing who knows what. Remember ... originally, most docks were floated by 55gal drums, long before styrofoam blocks were used. And many of those were sunk, after getting loose from those docks, so as to not be a hazard to water traffic.

[Buzzy]

CrappiePappy,

I am not looking to pick a fight but it does not MATTER how the data was taken only that it is IN the water and fish at dangerous levels.

But you are %100 right that it affects the trout in the Dix river all of the Sauger below lock 7 that people love to eat. All of the crappie and catfish.

Also that is a great point about the 100's of miles of shoreline that can also have problems.

[crappiepappy]

CrappiePappy,

I am not looking to pick a fight but it does not MATTER how the data was taken only that it is IN the water and fish at dangerous levels.

But you are %100 right that it affects the trout in the Dix river all of the Sauger below lock 7 that people love to eat. All of the crappie and catfish.

Also that is a great point about the 100's of miles of shoreline that can also have problems.

Not looking to pick any fights, either ... that's why I said I was playing devil's advocate, but not to diminish the severity of the problem.

I was just curious, and that's why I asked those 3 questions.


I fish Watts Bar, and eat the Crappie that I catch from there ... and they had a massive coal ash spill back in 2008. But theirs was in one of the tributary rivers, up river from the main lake where I fish. The 2012 TWRA's consumption advisory does not list Crappie ... and the fish it does list are PCB contaminated, not from any chemicals from the coal ash (like arsenic, selenium, etc). Their coal ash spill amounted to 1.1 Billion gallons of coal ash slurry, all at once.

[Buzzy]

Pappy I know you are not. I was just making sure you knew I wasn't.


Hopefully it is localized and we can do something about it. The problem is that our rivers and streams all over the state have been poisoned for some company to make money off our resources and then not give any back to the communities.

Remember the good folks in Harlan. "Which side are you on?"

[crappiepappy]

Pappy I know you are not. I was just making sure you knew I wasn't.


Hopefully it is localized and we can do something about it. The problem is that are rivers and streams all over the state have been poisoned for some company to make money off our resources and then not give any back to the communities.

Remember the good folks in Harlan. "Which side are you on?"

I'm just as concerned about it as you are, my friend !! That's why I keep up with the advisory list, and inform others to do the same.