Utah Lake Feb. Newsletter

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[#0000FF]Yep. Have been for several decades. And other than my third eye and glowing in the dark it hasn't affected me at all. And there are literally thousands of other folks who regularly dine on fish from that lake...and there have NEVER been any documented cases of illness or worse attributed to eating those fish.
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[#0000FF]Seriously, Utah Lake gets an undeserved bad rap. It is shallow and gets muddied easily, but the overall water quality is better than many of our "clean water" lakes. It was far worse in the past, during the days of Geneva Steel operation. But other than higher levels of PCBs in carp and older-larger catfish, the fish are all rated as safe to eat by our protective agencies.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]For example, if you check this link for [url "https://deq.utah.gov/fish-advisories/waterbody-utah-fish-advisories#utah"]UTAH FISH ADVISORIES[/url] you will see that a lot of Utah lakes have mercury advisories. None for Utah Lake...and that is one of the misinformed arguments I hear all the time about Utah Lake "it's full of mercury". Not so.
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[#0000FF]I'm also attaching a PDF file which contains reprints of several papers from the past on Utah Lake pollution.
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