RINCON, Ga. (WSAV) — Dead fish washed up on the shore of a creek in Rincon earlier this month, and officials urge you to stay out of that water.
“A kayaker was out here using the water following the storm and saw a significant number of dead fish, different sizes, different species,” said Cloe Lemaire, an environmental scientist for Savannah Riverkeeper.
“From brim to small catfish to a little tiny bass that was kind of gasping at the surface,” she continued.
According to Lemaire, Savannah Riverkeeper was called in on Oct. 11 to the Tommy Long Boat Ramp at Ebenezer Creek.
“It was following Hurricane Milton and even before that, after Hurricane Helene,” she said, “and so water levels were still extremely high in this area, probably 2 feet or so higher but completely covering the parking lot of this boat ramp, so significant, and actually by the time I arrived, I couldn’t even see the fish carcasses around here because they were all flooded over.”
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