NEWPORT, Scientists from multiple disciplines gathered June 10 at the North Country Career Center to discuss environmental threats posed by PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals, and their potential impact on Lake Memphremagog.
The meeting, organized by the group Don’t Undermine Memphremagog’s Purity (DUMP), opened with a discussion of brown bullheads. Many of those fish have been found with cancerous lesions. Vicki Blazer, a fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in West Virginia, presented her research on the ailing bullheads of South Bay and other New England lakes.
Blazer has studied fish harmed by contamination in other locations, including the Chesapeake Bay. Some observers have suggested the lesions may be linked to the nearby Coventry landfill, though no definitive cause has been established.
Originally reported by Barton Chronicle.
Photo: Tom Fisk via Pexels. Photo is illustrative and not from the scene.
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