Thousands of fish die at High Rock Lake
HIGH ROCK LAKE — Thousands of fish have died at High Rock Lake, and North Carolina officials blame a natural occurrence.
But the Yadkin riverkeeper blames the deaths on a massive sewage spill this summer.
The Salisbury Post reported that Susan Massengale, spokeswoman for the Division of Water Quality, said the state found no evidence that sewage caused the fish kill.
Officials think low dissolved oxygen, stirred by changing temperatures and storms, caused the deaths, she said.
Yadkin riverkeeper Dean Naujoks estimates that hundreds of thousands of fish died. He blames a sewage spill of almost 16 million gallons that occurred upstream in Thomasville.
When Thomasville reported the spill in early August, sewage had been spilling for several weeks into North Hamby Creek, which feeds into High Rock Lake.
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