I was discussing the dying fish with my husband last night and he looked at me kind of strangely and told me, "well, of course the fish are going to die. What did you expect when kennecott filters their mine water into our lake? Why do you think we're not supposed to swim in it?". Turns out, one of his teachers at school had seen the plans for our lake and it shows the mines water dumping straight into it. Granted it's filtered, but without treating it, it would have high alkalinity. I did some probing but the only thing I could find was that they do dump into a "water body" between the mountains and Jordan River (not a tailing pond which is where most dump to, and they have several of). Looking at the pollution maps that they are responsible for cleaning up, most of it is centered on us with a higher concentration of phosphorous around what appears to be our lake (no details on the map). I'm curious as to what his teacher really saw and what the alkalinity and phosphorous levels of our lake really are. That would clearly explain why all the fish are dying...
Thoughts?