SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah — Dead fish are washing up along the banks of the Jordan River in great numbers and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality is investigating the cause behind it.

If you’ve run, biked or golfed along the Jordan River lately, you may have smelled it before you saw it.

“It just takes me back to when I would go camping and people would clean fish,” said Mark Thomas, who lives near the river in Lehi.

Thomas first noticed the odor Thursday night.

“Then this morning, I just came by and saw all the fish floating down,” Thomas said as he walked his dog Alvin along the Jordan River Trail.

In just the small section I walked with Thomas and others near Thanksgiving Park, I spotted hundreds of dead fish - the issue seems to stretch for miles.

“We got further up the riv

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