bruce wrote:Vitriola wrote:Whatever you have. Maybe the pureed brains of your dead bandmembers.
You know, it's funny. I had a whole bottle of that lying around, but apparently while I was gone, some EVIL BITCH must have drunk it all, apparently under the misimpression that it was Jim Beam.
Bruce
State seeks cause of fish kill in Salt River
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WEST POINT, Ky. — Thousands of dead fish turned up in the Salt River yesterday, but state officials could not definitively link the kill to a fire at a bourbon warehouse in Nelson County earlier this week.
Biologists were testing the water of the 140-mile river near its confluence with the Ohio River, just north of the Fort Knox Army post and about 25 miles southwest of Louisville.
West Point police notified state officials of the kill yesterday afternoon. Workers plan to be at the site again today to continue their investigation.
The species found dead included drum, buffalo, sunfish, paddlefish and sauger, said Wayne Davis, the environmental section chief for the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
"We've seen some very large fish," Davis said. "So it's a pretty serious incident."
Davis said the kill may be connected to the fire that destroyed a warehouse at the Jim Beam distillery in Bardstown on Monday.
About 800,000 gallons of bourbon spilled into a creek that flows into the Beech Fork, which joins the Salt River in Fort Knox, where Davis said the kill was first detected.
"Right now we're not going to rule out anything," he said. "We're trying to collect as much evidence as we can to try to determine what the cause is."
Davis compared the kill to one in 2000 that was linked to a fire at the Wild Turkey distillery in Lawrenceburg. A seven-story warehouse was destroyed and about 1million gallons of aging bourbon spilled into the Kentucky River.
Biologists believe microscopic bacteria and algae feeding on the sugar in the alcohol sucked the oxygen out of the river, killing thousands of fish, weighing about 80,000 pounds.
The kill prompted the bourbon maker to pay the state $256,000 in damages.