Fish Kill Article - InFishermen

[5bites]

And by not flood everything you mean let there be at least a month of good willow bite in April and May. 

[Old plug]

5 bites. I am not saying it was all sewage but the development W/O sewers miles away can come back into Table Rock. The older the systems the more afflaunts get thru them. Big springs in Mo Has affluents coming in from a town miles away. They traced it back.   

Ground water all over the nation is suffering from this.

[MOPanfisher]

If the problem is primarily caused by 5he heavy inflows how exactly would holding the waterlevel lower change it?  Still have the same inflows, still have the same nutrient loading, guess what problem doesn't change.  There are definitely affects from septic systems but the big algal blooms come from the nutrient rich inflows.

[5bites]

5 bites. I am not saying it was all sewage but the development W/O sewers miles away can come back into Table Rock. The older the systems the more afflaunts get thru them. Big springs in Mo Has affluents coming in from a town miles away. They traced it back.   

Ground water all over the nation is suffering from this.

it may one day be an issue but I'd be inclined to think it would be on the more populated end of the lake rather than it happening in literally the two most unpopulated places. Also you'd think James River would have this trouble if sewer was an issue. I'm gonna stick with what the biologist say it is considering it's happening every high water year. 

 

But one day it may well be an issue. Or it may help the lake. Hard to say. 

[5bites]

Maybe holding the water back for such a long period of time has stagnated some of the water. Open up Beaver and Table Rock and flush her out. Sorry Bull Shoals.

This is the part that I'm a little confused on. Haven't they been dropping the lake fairly steadily? I haven't paid attention to beaver. 

[96 CHAMP]

good article, thanks for sharing

[Fish24/7]

he did mention algae in the article

is there a  toxicology report

did they take any of these dead fish to be examined?

I'd like to read those results

 

Table rock , as well as other waters in the area, have been on the epa's impaired list of waters.

Our waterways are affected by wastewater from cities and failing septic tanks, as well as pollutants found in stormwater runoff from commercial, residential, industrial, and agricultural land uses in our community. Our waterways are also negatively affected by increases in runoff rate and volume resulting in stream bank erosion, as well as other changes such as removal of trees/vegetation along our streams. In addition, water pollution can come from buried sources such as leaking underground storage tanks and contaminated soils, as well as pollutants deposited from the air

 

 

 

 

[Greenheadrocker]

I pulled out a dozen fish and looked at them all real close, most were still alive but barley. They all had a brown growth on their gill's.Like I said earlier most were crappie From 1" too over 12", but I also recovered smallmouth-largemouth and spotted bass all had this growth on their gills.

 

[Fishin Hodge]

I heard of a kill up in the Shell Knob area from a good friend yesterday.  Mix of fish but many walleye.  I fully trust this source.  Enough to give the area a stench.  

As far as drawing the lake down in the winter, in theory they wouldn't  have to pull as much water, with less flow I'd think this would at least allow the thermocline to set up deeper.  

I believe some septic runoff is actually beneficial to the fish and fertility of the water.

[Bass Enforcer]

Another reason to hold the water level lower during the winter months, again is to anticipate spring rains, as stated earlier. What happens when they can't release the water quicker is it kills the submerged vegetation which ultimately starts using oxygen itself.  Thus depleting oxygen that otherwise would have stuck around. Water flow is great for many reasons...1.it brings in more quality oxygenated water (typically,unless decomposing vegetation is depleting it.) 2. Current helps to set up fish at current breaks ledges etc. 3. Moving water is always cooler water. Long time high water , then drawing that water down just isn't the same as a steady draw. As long as they don't draw too low.  There is of course a happy medium with a "steady draw."