DDT CASTS A SPELL ON FOURTH LAKE; ITS USE WAS BANNED IN 1970, BUT IT CONTINUES TO CONTAMINATE THE LAKE TODAY.(News)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | June 30, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: Hart Seely Staff writer

Thirty-two years after it was banned, DDT still haunts Fourth Lake.

Nobody knows why.

Some wonder about the 55-gallon drums in the depths of Eagle Bay, where sediment readings show high levels. Others say the DDT lurks somewhere in the nearby hills, perhaps leaking from a barrel to this day.

This is the legacy of a long-lost war on black flies, a crusade that left contaminated fish and the taint of a state Health Department advisory on an otherwise pristine Adirondack lake.

Unlike many nearby ...

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