Strong Smell Of Sewage And Thousands of Dead Fish Along Erie Shore

A strong sewage smell preceded scenes of dead fish littering the shores of Lake Erie near the Detroit River this weekend and has residents wondering what caused the massive die-off, the Windsor Star reports.

“This is a very substantial fish kill and there’s something really wrong to have a fish die off like this,” Dr. David Colby, a cottager who is also the Chatham-Kent medical officer of health, told the Star.

Colby said he’s never smelled such a sewage stench on the lake and he’s never seen anything like the scenes of large dead fish littering the beach.

Ontario Officials aren’t sure what killed the fish, but preliminary tests and observations ruled out pollution or spills.