Quote Originally Posted by doggone View Post
A lot of water treatment systems can't handle the large influx of water during storms or have some sort of issue and it's not that uncommon for untreated water to get dumped. Not saying it's right but it's more common than you might think. It was really bad back in the seventies and so...boats and tows with toilets dumped right in...septic systems with poor leach fields had pipes that dumped in creeks and some houses hid pipes that dumped straight through. It all found its way in. When I use to fish the Mississippi a lot I had a condom more than once get hung on my line. None of our major river systems are exactly clean. But I have spent the better part of 50 years swimming and fishing them and ate tons of fish from them and I guess I'm okay. Course I spent a good part of my life as a plumber working directly in raw sewage so probably got some immunity I guess LOL. Ain't tons of fish from Barkley and Kentucky both below the spill ways and in the lakes. Way more than the recommended amounts.

I swear I would trade more polluted water to get rid of these Asian Carp. That sounds extreme but those dang things break my heart to think what we use to have in those waters. Especially the spillways.
yep it's happened here and can you imagine how much LOUISVILLE KY can dump in a matter of minutes? The Ohio is cleaner that it's been in years because of the clean water act.