After EPA finds chart-topping fecal bacteria in Lonesome Lake, state doesn’t detect E. coli

After EPA finds chart-topping fecal bacteria in Lonesome Lake, state doesn’t detect E. coli

Wyoming environmental regulators who tested the waters of a crowded and stunning Wind River Range lake last summer did not detect the same worrisome concentrations of fecal bacteria that federal regulators uncovered three years earlier.  At issue is Lonesome Lake, a 35-acre waterbody at the base of the Cirque of the Towers that generated headlines after the Environmental Protection Agency published its most recent National Lakes Assessment. The …