Lately there have been several public meetings on cleaning up Clear Lake. If this sounds familiar it’s been a hot topic for years. Over the past 30 years there have been a number of groups that have wanted to change the lake dramatically and they range from dredging the lake to a depth of more than100 feet to spraying the lake with a herbicide to kill the weeds and algae. Actually, in comparison to the surrounding lakes the fish have less mercury than Lake Berryessa and Lake Pillsbury. The mercury in the lake comes from the old mercury mine near Rattlesnake Island. It was on the Super Fund...