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    Largemouth bass info. Piscataway Creek in Prince George’s County.

    Advisory issued: Limit how much of these 3 fish you eat from Piscataway Creek.

    https://wtop.com/prince-georges-coun...cataway-creek/

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    I'm not a tree hugger or global warming nut, but man sure has done a good job of screwing up our waterways. On the bright side, we are not dealing with water conditions like India or other developing countries

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    Give it time....we will find some way to screw up our waterways.

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    The river was toxic and full of pollution in the 70’s. Much better now but It looks like it may be heading back in the wrong direction.

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    The construction of the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge and National Harbor has really set back the northern portion of the tidal Potomac. My understanding was the developer of National Harbor was supposed to fund a new waste water treatment plant to accommodate the huge increase waste water to the current infrastructure. They never did and found it cheaper to pay the environmental fines. This has resulted in the waste water plant in the back of Piscataway Creek being overwhelmed. Heavy rains and high water usage can cause raw sewage to be spilled in Piscataway Creek. It has happened numerous times in recent years.

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    I found what appears to be the source, 'Forever chemicals’ trigger first fish consumption warning in Chesapeake region | State | somdnews.com

    The MDE recommended that adults eat no more than one meal a month of redbreast sunfish and three meals monthly of largemouth bass caught in Piscataway Creek. Children, who are more vulnerable to toxic exposures, should consume even less bass, the state agency advised, and eat no more than seven monthly portions of a third fish, yellow bullhead catfish.

    Greg Allen, chair of the toxic contaminants workgroup of the Chesapeake Bay Program, said he was “not terribly surprised” by the MDE advisory. PFAS has been detected in soil and groundwater at nine military facilities in Maryland and at multiple other sites, both military and civilian, around the Bay watershed.

    Testing by the MDE and by others has detected PFAS in fish and shellfish from around Maryland, including in Antietam Creek farther up the Potomac and in southern Maryland waters. Allen said he expects more warnings about eating PFAS-contaminated fish in the future, particularly on the Western Shore of the Bay, where more facilities have been identified as having handled PFAS.

    The Piscataway advisory stems from an investigation begun after a July 2020 fish kill in the creek that was tied to a “release” of firefighting foam at the air base, according to an MDE report. A 2018 site investigation by the Pentagon also had detected “relatively high levels” of two PFAS compounds used in firefighting foams — perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA — in surface water and stormwater on or near the base, the MDE report said.
    Last edited by javelin90; 10-29-2021 at 06:54 AM.

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    With the forcast of tidal flooding to be => Isabel in 2013 today, we will get plenty of "new" additions to the watershed.