Vernon, Conn./WTIC Radio - The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is out with a warning regarding fish caught in the Hockanum River.
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DEEP has issued a consumption advisory based on elevated levels so-called PFAS in tissue samples from fish caught in the Hockanum in Vernon to the Connecticut River.
As a result, the department advises not eating fish caught in Shenipsit Lake dam, Union Pond in Manchester, several impoundments on the Hockanum in East Hartford, and the Tankerhoosen River.