Amazing presentation, I learned a lot. I really hope we can invest in some solutions. I'm surprised aeration lines weren't mentioned as it seems the most obvious and helpful.
Great information and thanks for doing this work. However I wish the penstocks (intakes for power generating) would have been discussed. They are near 100 ft below the rface. This is where the good water squeeze is. That is why the good water goes away so quickly. I say add pipe to go above or below the good water squeeze.
The fish kill is always this way year in and year out. There are many many trophy fish of over 35 lbs up to 60+lbs below the dam in the tail race. Or the Savannah river. The water is moving and if any water is being let out of the dam it’s very cold. They feed on rainbow trout and are easy to catch with rainbow trout but must be bought and not caught. But bait shops on hartwell sell them. Herring don’t work very well
Why can’t we build an oxygen plant like the ones we have at Russel and Clark’s Hill? Both of those lake get far less pressure than Hartwell, yet somehow are deemed deserving of the oxygen plants.
@@jimmywaters4599 Lake Hartwell and its Twelve Mile Creek watershed were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mainly Aroclor 1016 and 1254. There are many reasons I wouldn’t eat the fish though. I mean if your from Hartwell then I’m sure you know there’s a town underneath it along with dead bodies. One washed up on old 29 a couple years back as well. I won’t say eating the fish will kill you or harm you but I’ve heard stories upon stories ab Hartwell lake so I just steer clear along with everyone else I know.
Where is this town at supposedly?Well maybe ive heard before and forgot and yes hartwell lake is like mile and half from where im at and i walk at the dam all the time too.
I'd love to see a study on lake juliette like this . 15 years ago , it was nothing to hit schools of 20+ lbs average fish regularly. Today , fish over 5-7 lbs are rare and average stripers are closer to 2-3 lbs. I've speculated for a while that there was a die off of trophy sized stripers on the lake at some point. Unfortunately, I wasn't fishing the lake a lot in this timeframe , so I wasn't on the lake to witness a die off if it occurred. I just started fishing the lake by boat in the last 3 years . My hope was to chase big stripers . I, nor anyone else I'm aware of, catches big fish on the lake anymore .
Amazing presentation, I learned a lot. I really hope we can invest in some solutions. I'm surprised aeration lines weren't mentioned as it seems the most obvious and helpful.
Excellent work!! Thank you for doing all of this!!
Thanks for the great video.
@GeorgiaWildlife could you put in pumps near the dam to mix the water column so the deadzone is reduced/eliminated?
Great information and thanks for doing this work. However I wish the penstocks (intakes for power generating) would have been discussed. They are near 100 ft below the rface. This is where the good water squeeze is. That is why the good water goes away so quickly.
I say add pipe to go above or below the good water squeeze.
The fish kill is always this way year in and year out. There are many many trophy fish of over 35 lbs up to 60+lbs below the dam in the tail race. Or the Savannah river. The water is moving and if any water is being let out of the dam it’s very cold. They feed on rainbow trout and are easy to catch with rainbow trout but must be bought and not caught. But bait shops on hartwell sell them. Herring don’t work very well
Why can’t we build an oxygen plant like the ones we have at Russel and Clark’s Hill? Both of those lake get far less pressure than Hartwell, yet somehow are deemed deserving of the oxygen plants.
Does he say why the oxygen is getting depleted? I do not have time to watch this whole video.
Ain’t not one fish in Hartwell worth eating I wouldn’t do anything but catch and release in Hartwell. Everyone from here knows this lake is terrible
I'm near hartwell, can you educate us about what your referring to? toxicity? oxygen?thanks in advance
@@jimmywaters4599 Lake Hartwell and its Twelve Mile Creek watershed were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mainly Aroclor 1016 and 1254. There are many reasons I wouldn’t eat the fish though. I mean if your from Hartwell then I’m sure you know there’s a town underneath it along with dead bodies. One washed up on old 29 a couple years back as well. I won’t say eating the fish will kill you or harm you but I’ve heard stories upon stories ab Hartwell lake so I just steer clear along with everyone else I know.
Where is this town at supposedly?Well maybe ive heard before and forgot and yes hartwell lake is like mile and
half from where im at and i walk at the dam all the time too.
I'd love to see a study on lake juliette like this . 15 years ago , it was nothing to hit schools of 20+ lbs average fish regularly. Today , fish over 5-7 lbs are rare and average stripers are closer to 2-3 lbs.
I've speculated for a while that there was a die off of trophy sized stripers on the lake at some point. Unfortunately, I wasn't fishing the lake a lot in this timeframe , so I wasn't on the lake to witness a die off if it occurred.
I just started fishing the lake by boat in the last 3 years . My hope was to chase big stripers . I, nor anyone else I'm aware of, catches big fish on the lake anymore .