PFAS (forever chemicals) map and information (Page 2): Bull sharks. Honestly. They found one as far north as Alton, Illinois (close to St Louis). Surprised me.

Jer Loc: N. Illinois 🇺🇸

FourchonLa. wrote:

There are a few down here but we catch all the ones from Minnesota on down to the gulf. Who knows what's in the Mississippi.

Bull sharks. Honestly.
They found one as far north as Alton, Illinois (close to St Louis).
Surprised me.

Jer Loc: N. Illinois 🇺🇸

plumbob wrote:

No mistake Jer, more like cautious I would say. Besides better to be safe than get a nasty gram!!!

Watch the hits the thread gets even after the replies slow down to a crawl and you will see more folks are getting it than one could imagine.

Thanks 👍

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

FourchonLa. wrote:

There are a few down here but we catch all the ones from Minnesota on down to the gulf. Who knows what's in the Mississippi.

There are a lot more sites than are showing on that map.

Frank romero Loc: Clovis, NM

Jer wrote:

I found this quite interesting. If you blow-up the map, you can see where PFAS chemicals are found near you and affecting fish and wildlife.

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_in_wildlife/map/

We had PFAS located around Cannon AFB. Supposedly clean up is ongoing. Dairy nearby went out of business

MuskyHunter Loc: Torrington, CT

Jer wrote:

I found this quite interesting. If you blow-up the map, you can see where PFAS chemicals are found near you and affecting fish and wildlife.

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_in_wildlife/map/

What I don't understand, is that other than the Great Lakes, I can only find rivers on this map. Is there a reason for this. Surely some lakes must be contaminated as well.

Frank

Frank romero Loc: Clovis, NM

Frank romero wrote:

We had PFAS located around Cannon AFB. Supposedly clean up is ongoing. Dairy nearby went out of business

We don’t have river close by the underground water was contaminated

Dakoda Loc: Cle Elum, WA

Jer wrote:

I found this quite interesting. If you blow-up the map, you can see where PFAS chemicals are found near you and affecting fish and wildlife.

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_in_wildlife/map/

Cle Elum is one of four in Washington. There was a lot of gold and mineral mining here, unknown if that is a factor.

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

Dakoda wrote:

Cle Elum is one of four in Washington. There was a lot of gold and mineral mining here, unknown if that is a factor.

Mining is one of the major sources of problems in PA from the coal mines. The slag was very acidic and is an ongoing problem. You also get heavy metal contamination from other types of mining.

smitty Loc: maine

Jer wrote:

I found this quite interesting. If you blow-up the map, you can see where PFAS chemicals are found near you and affecting fish and wildlife.

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_in_wildlife/map/

hi jer
its a big story up here. tv/radio/papers etc. imho: how long this stuff been around? NOW i'm sposed to start worry about. if it needs to be cleaned up ; DO it. i'mt tired of all the talk. when does the cleanup start? not here, not yet[maine] when i was a kid in nj, any thing that was waste or by product even raw sewerage went in the river. where i lived it was the navesink river, got so bad fishing and clamming shut down by late 60s [people getting hepatitis and such] i bet the usaf major remembers these days. it has since come back some what with conservation efforts but i only know what i read and yall know how reliable news is.
as far as keeping fish i normally dont. but when i get a hold of a reel nice fish it chow time. i'm almost 70 and i figger all that -----------stuff that passed thru me there no fish gonna bother me at this point. well maybe a shark
my kids and gks : what r they gonna eat

Jer Loc: N. Illinois 🇺🇸

smitty wrote:

hi jer br its a big story up here. tv/radio/papers... (show quote)

Smitty,
I never knew about all this stuff when I was younger. We still eat fish and we will continue.
I’ve lived three-quarters of a century and am not going to worry for us, but I do worry about the kids.
One has to wonder why the EPA still allows big cities to dump sewage into any body of water and not be required to clean it up and stop the practice.
Tight Lines.

smitty Loc: maine

hi jer
the epa is one of the most powerful and strongly staffed agencies of our wonderful gummint [pogo] but it is still usgov; how much can we expect realistically sad
not worried bout the kids; theyr smarter than us. they better be. sink or swim