Sounds like more of the bass people trying to keep all their fish.
They do that down here. I'm still alive after 65 years, but will probably
die soon, but not from mercury....

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Thursday, September 23, 2004
Warning: Don't eat the fish


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Lakes on future Indian Hill park site have mercury

By Sheila McLaughlin
Enquirer staff writer


INDIAN HILL - Gravel-pit lakes at a future park here continue to show
elevated levels of mercury, city officials said Wednesday.

But that won't spoil plans to open the lakes for boating and angling once
the park is developed on Ohio 126.

Just don't eat the fish, officials said. They'll post signs to that effect
at Grand Valley when the park opens for fishing, City Manager Mike Burns
said.

"The village believes the correct and most conservative action is to
continue its current policy of permitting only catch-and-release fishing
at the Grand Valley site," he said.

The city ordered a second round of tests in June to determine the accuracy
of initial tests taken at the site in April. Early samples indicated that
mercury levels in some lakes were higher than standards for drinking
water, and in two cases, unsafe for aquatic life.

Officials said the latest results were consistent with the first.

Fish advisories are common in local and national lakes, rivers and
streams. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency currently advises eating
no more than one weekly serving of sport fish from all water bodies in the
state because of mercury or PCB content. Several local waters, including
the Little Miami River, are even more restricted for certain fish species.

Ohio EPA also suggested that Indian Hill step up monitoring of its
drinking water because the lakes sit on top of the aquifer that feeds city
wells. Samples from the wells in July showed no lead or mercury levels,
city waterworks superintendent Jim Fox said.

The agency also sidelined an investigation into the possibility that lead
may be on the site because a shooting range may have operated on the site
until the 1970s. There was no clear evidence of a range in aerial
photographs, but the investigation could be reopened if new information
surfaces, spokeswoman Heather Lauer said.

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