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!SEMNTINEL 11 w. 4,on 06C3H97S ^ Lake George scares seen as "bunk" f'U&t George actios" U the' abjectofthe meet recent issue of the "WMt* Birch Itneway" pub* - fished by the Ttcondecege Fish end Gene Club, Inc. Written by Merrill Dotbeck, dbb president, the erricfe repo- dletes recent charges that polychtocinatedbiphewyls (PCB>) are endangering both the fidi of Lake George and the drinktag water *"6eeefc review* the variona "Lake George earns" that have wept the area In recent ywn. ' Ha begins with the United States Corps of Army Engineers, noting that they were tubing over the lake and "mikisg plans to cat a cross swatch somewhere to the oath of Mt. Defiance tango and fhasly canned Lake George with of the sltaatlon eoattnaos: "by developing a writable locking system tt wonli be qaite possible to watch a floriBa of ell tankers and Bel boots teg their unpleas ant lends from Champlain sooth through old Hertoen and thence conaung to the Hudson some where lis the riehrity of Glens BhUs and from there on and bo aa es president Franklin D. looee veh aright have saggastod aaeo to Shangri-la." "Wonnve LakeGeorge marcarv acme. TUa one beeame a real beck-breaker to the fisherman who wore warn ed by the DBC and others not to date eat any of the cnee famous Lake George ti * theyi hI ad becoi i hriba weresnddenly Ibond to be regis tering riaable contents of deadly mercery. This became especially dangerous and highly consen trated in the largor fish. Lake trout we are toM ate among the longest Hvere in the fresh water fish world and since masonry is aocamalatlve and befids np in Thee we had the I meat that's wbet the experts finally decided It was to be called. I had written in the newsletter sometime before that I behoved the "fishy" taste in Lake George water was probably doe to some change bi algae condittoes within the lake. The water dM taste end smell fish there wes no argument there. 1 have lived on the shore of Georgs fare over SO years and. daring that time 1 drank barrels of tMf water which we pumped directly from the lake. I sowed daring my Ufotlms and It has oc curred usually Into in tbs winter following n ported of condoned ther. QonadUes of Into- heavy ng the ice Increased of darkness In the contributed to die Algae Bloom. I growth or culture of soma partic ular farm of algaa Is thus sdnaelatod. A very flatty taste aed odor follows but fortunately after a few Lake George water to once agate os sweat and loacieoa as over. Tha Algae Bloom was sort of briarlocked with the "Phosphate oad it's boycott. This soapy monster monopolized the headfiots for a conrideraMa' length of time. Repotedfr A la stimulates dm development of theAlgae Bloom. I wish someone would explain to me Jest how this phosphate saturation came about ao suddenly at the flaw of yeer when Lake George wee eomperetivefy deserted by the summer multitudes. Those responsible for moot of the ectMuoe that , were dosed. Leach beds and cesspools were still frozen be } neatn ice and snow. Oh well. I guess they might as wen blame the poor old phosphates - some- thing hat to be blamed. I think however, when the atmospheric conditions once again create an algae Moon we win drink Achy water again for awhile * phos phates or not. Perhaps someone ought to test that fishy water, might even find it would have some vary beneficial effect. May be diet's where fish get their flavor. And so it goes - one Lake George Spare after another but again I say ``bunk!'' I still drink my Lake George water and I love H. I'd also gladly eat any of thorn contaminated Lake George trout If I could got my hands on thaml I also bonsve that those scares like tha PCB and The Lake George - Champlain Navigational Dream all make good hemflinas for the press but they sure es hell won't sell much Lake Gsccge shore Hne or Tkonderoga real estate to those people so needed to stimulate our tourist end rest- | One scare Doibeck omitted I from his column was on the pres ence of DDT in lake fish. Doibeck said that during the late fifties and into the early sixties, noteably 1959-J960, many rioco ap peared dead on the surface of the lake during the winter. Doibeck sited the death of other larger fish following the sisco die off. Bess did not die off. He said tlud because the base wy^ in hlber- nation and dM not eat the sieeo.. forage flab In the Inks, they wnr spared from the disease that tin Siscos carried. The risco dfc of and the consequent large Aah # off was due in fact. Doibeck soy to s disease in the siseoa. We will all weft for the net scare" to hit the lake. _____ r Ash and gamers *i be su top o those episodes rise, that a real trophy trout If hung by dm till couM bo rimed ao MGNS 033227