I tend to be skeptical when it comes to any reports like this. One thing that jumped out to me was the scientist pulling up the mud samples and saying that it was solid black, not like mud or clay so it must be ash. If you have ever spent any time on the water you know that you get that black muck all over the place. The river I fish has a cove that is about 1' deep and that muck is 3' deep.... found out frog gigging with MN last summer, it also stinks to high heaven. I'm not saying that I trust TVA to be 100 percent honest but I also don't trust some jack leg riding around in a boat with a PVC pipe collecting samples. I think that if the levels were that high there would be medical records from the area to prove the increase in all the diseases listed. I'm not a scientist nor the smartest person in the room but I will wait and see how this proceeds. I will still be out there this winter catching and potentially eating fish, mostly the 40+ pounds stripers.
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