Intersting info on Herrington lake

[Stoner]

Wasn't aware there were some water issues there
https://eec.ky.gov/Environmental-Pro...on%20Plan.aspx

[Dan21XRS]

How's about a simple explanation???... Too many links... Dan

[Stoner]

How's about a simple explanation???... Too many links... Dan

I read through a few of them, it appears the water quality has been impacted by the Brown power plant discharge. Fish samples have a higher detect of a pollutant or pollutants. I’ll try to look back through them later today and see what those are.

[Stoner]

https://eec.ky.gov/Environmental-Pro...June_2019b.pdf
Link contains most all of the findings...it's long. Selenium and arsenic were noted in the findings as well as several species of fish with deformities
• The concentrations of selenium in fish fillets are less than human health risk-based ingestion
values for selenium (Figures 2-3D‒E).
• Fish tissue concentrations for arsenic, cadmium, boron, lead, and zinc are also below the human
health screening levels.
o Arsenic speciation in fish tissues demonstrated that inorganic arsenic (the form of arsenic that
is potentially toxic to humans) is not present or was present at concentrations lower than the
human health standard for arsenic ingestion in fish tissues (Figures 2-4B‒C).
• The only fish tissue concentrations that exceeded the human health screening levels are
concentrations of methylmercury in fish tissue observed in areas of the lake away from E.W.
Brown Station. Specifically, two flathead catfish samples had elevated concentrations, one sample
from Middle Herrington Lake (427 μg/kg) and another in Lower Herrington Lake (379 μg/kg)

[dabassking]

That’s been a long standing issue on Herrington as far as I know.

[Les Young]

Things must have changed a lot since they had pics of fish with crooked spines & said that selenium levels were 16 times the legal amount & KU had to pay a $250,000.00 fine.