Please see this news release from the DNR announcing that Black Earth Creek brown trout have a consumption advisory because of PFAF contamination. It has details of the advisory and links for more information about these chemicals and their possible effects on human health.

SWTU contacted DNR Fish Management upon receiving this news for more information, especially for any effects on the BEC trout population. So far, the trout with the levels of contamination that caused the advisory have been found around Cross Plains. While we should be cautious, as the DNR advisory indicates, about eating fish even at low levels of PFAFs, the DNR does not believe that the current level of contamination is one of the factors in the persistently low trout populations in downstream sections of Black Earth Creek.

Note that this is early information and we will learn more. SWTU will follow this issue closely with the DNR and other conservation organizations that work to protect Black Earth Creek and its watershed.