Name:	BAJ -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/20/2019 12:48:12 PM

"The Alabama Department of Public Health has released its annual fish consumption advisories for 2019, a list of locations where the state recommends that people limit the amount of fish they eat because of contamination from substances such as mercury, PCBs, and PFOS."

Elkahatchee Creek and Sugar Creek both show up on the list, and not in a good way. Here's the link to the article and the advisories:

https://www.al.com/news/2019/07/alabama-releases-2019-fish-consumption-advisories.html

Name:	Maddog -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/20/2019 1:53:43 PM

Where is the mercury in the Elkahatchee and Sugar Creeks coming from that's contaminating the bass?

Name:	realfast64 -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/20/2019 2:16:57 PM

  And the report says The Westpoint resv. , chattahoochee is ok (?)  ?  I take issue with this something reads FISHEY!

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/20/2019 6:14:57 PM

Sugar Creek is the dumping water for Alex City's treatment plant, I believe, and it runs into Elkahatchee, which feeds into the lake.

Today, AC has a good treatment plant, but back in the day Russell Mills dumped so much dye into the city sewer system, I heard that Elkahatchee would change colors.  That dye is still in the bottom of the creek.....that's what I've been told.  Old timers may be able to furnish more info.

Name:	BAJ -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/20/2019 6:29:27 PM

Sugar Creek definitely had some colorful waters back in the day. I remember seeing it run purple on occasion, and orange at least once. (That must have been Auburn Day at Russell Mills...)

Name:	BAJ -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/20/2019 6:33:44 PM

I just noticed that Yates and Thurlow also have "Do Not Eat Any" designations for Largemouth Bass.

Name:	realfast64 -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/20/2019 9:10:10 PM

  Not to sound like a smarty but that dye is on all of our skin.  I came to the lake in 63 and yes i have seen color in the creek but not the color spoke of on this site. I have seen fish kills in that creek and also fish kills on the lower end of the lake. I still take issue with this report.  

 Now to stir the pot. I have neverheard or read anything about Hillabee creek. You see this creek is the creek that flowed by the gold mines at Dutch bend and Hog mountain. What does that have to do with this report you ask? Well mercury was the heavy metal used to seperate the gold when minning. That area has to have mercury contamination. Hillabee is also where Alex City had the water treatment plant before the water plant was built at river north.

Name:	Gallette's -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/23/2019 11:23:35 PM

The treatment plant hasn’t discharged into Sugar Creek in years. The discharge is piped into Lake Martin somewhere on the NW side of the lake. 

Name:	realfast64 -	Reply
Subject:	Fish Consumption Advisory
Date:	7/24/2019 5:21:14 PM

  You are correct the city has not discharged into sugar creek except in a rain event, then it can overflow into sugar creek.  The discharge pipe you speak of is due east of the old Pineywoods resturant. This discharge in in appx. 50 feet of water and just north of the Windcreek state parks discharge.