Thanks again Washington Apple industry…. for polluting beautiful Lake Chelan (and surrounding smaller lakes). Ugh. This disgusts me and I hope more people learn about it.
The Washington State Department of Ecology did an extensive study of DDT and PCB in the Lake Chelan fish. Check out the DOE’s report from 2006: https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/documents/0503014.pdf
The place you REALLY don’t want to fish? Roses Lake! One of the picturesque smaller lakes in the hills of Manson. They STILL dump glyphosate (commonly known as the product RoundUp) into the water to clear up the algae. Makes all the lake home owners happy because they don’t want a stinky lake. Do they know that the means to achieve this end are courtesy of poison? They put a little sign up by the boat launch telling people it’s probably a bad idea to swim in there for a few days… UGH. Dumping chemicals into lakes. Why are people so stupid?
There is some good news. Well, not really. It’s only good news if you live uplake in the 25 Mile Creek region, you’ve got pretty clean water. The Lucerne Basin is not really impacted by this issue. Why? The study makes the curious point that there has been minimal AGRICULTURE there!
The orchard industry has kinda destroyed some beautiful lakes. I wouldn’t eat the fish from Lake Chelan or Roses Lake for a very long time.
IT”S FAIRLY IRONIC THAT ONE OF THE LARGEST APPLE PACKING CO-OPS IS CALLED “TROUT”.
