https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/lake-boehmer-dead-sea-west-texas/

Hydrogen sulfide? Yikes.

Article says it's been going since 2003 but I pulled up google earth and the body of water they show the time lapse on was there in 1985. What am I missing?
I'd say something is fishy but not possible in that water.

They provided a bad link. Try this one instead:
zoomed in

Maybe they could import some salt water fish into this beautiful lake?

Couple of things I notice looking at that lake.

• first, the time lapse doesn't clearly show the lake growing in size. to me it seems to show the lake swells and shrinks depending on the inflow and the evaporation/seepage.
• second, it looks to be in the flood plain of the pecos river, which would have an affect.
• third it looks like one of those west texas irrigation ditches flows into the "lake"

these things are relevant because that lake has been there for a while, and that portion of the pecos river has a TDS of around 16,000 mg/l with chlorides in the 5k-6k mg/l range. for reference that is higher than the definition for brackish. but not quite seawater which is ~35k mg/l tds and 19k mg/l chlorides. freshwater for reference should have TDS below 500 and chlorides below 250. so you could very easily get to the levels seen in that lake with nothing but the pecos river as a source and evaporation/seepage as the outflow.

now, those wells are a problem and are likely contributing to the issues seen in that lake, but my guess is that plugging the wells doesn't completely solve the problem.

AstonAg said:

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Maybe they could import some salt water fish into this beautiful lake?

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https://crystalwatersseafood.com/

Already folks raising ocean fish near Pecos

CanyonAg77 said:

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AstonAg said:

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Maybe they could import some salt water fish into this beautiful lake?

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https://crystalwatersseafood.com/

Already folks raising ocean fish near Pecos

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We've got a shrimp farm up here in NW Montana.

What a freaking mess that will never get fixed........

Indoor or outdoor?

Indoor. They started selling commercially earlier this year.

They also win the business name pun award: https://aquaprawnics.com/

rather be fishing said:

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CanyonAg77 said:

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AstonAg said:

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Maybe they could import some salt water fish into this beautiful lake?

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https://crystalwatersseafood.com/

Already folks raising ocean fish near Pecos

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We've got a shrimp farm up here in NW Montana.

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High fence or low fence. Relative to shrimp of course.

Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

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rather be fishing said:

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CanyonAg77 said:

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AstonAg said:

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Maybe they could import some salt water fish into this beautiful lake?

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https://crystalwatersseafood.com/

Already folks raising ocean fish near Pecos

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We've got a shrimp farm up here in NW Montana.

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High fence or low fence. Relative to shrimp of course.

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No fence