The Tennessee Department ... including elevated mercury levels. After conducting several tests in local reservoirs, officials issued advisories for three different lakes across the state ...

Yellow perch exhibited 157% higher mercury concentrations in lakes invaded by zebra mussels. Average-sized yellow perch had a 50 times higher risk of exceeding mercury thresholds.

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said the warning was due to elevated levels of mercury. The advisory includes all black bass species for the entirety of the reservoir ...

OAK RIDGE — Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are trying to find a way to clean mercury out of East Tennessee's most ... an industrial past with high levels of mercury.

Lakes across East Tennessee are nearly full. TVA said tributary lakes like Norris and Douglas are very close, if not at, summer pool. Lake levels were ... the debris that high water is creating.