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What's in Melton Hill Lake?

Here are the potential pollutants you need to know about before swimming and fishing in Melton Hill lake.

Water quality advisories from the State of Tennessee make it clear: there are lakes, rivers and creeks where you should not swim or fish because of potentially dangerous pollutants and bacteria. 

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►LIST: Water advisories in East Tennessee

Here are the specific advisories for Melton Hill Reservoir.

Melton Hill Reservoir (Knox, Anderson) 

Polluted with: PCBs 

Catfish should not be eaten.

Here are the specific advisories--broken down by body of water--for other popular lakes in East Tennessee, as of March 2019. You can see the latest list on the Department of Environment and Conservation's website here.  

Details on the pollutants can be found here.

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