Don’t swim in these 52 Missouri poop chutes
explains why water bodies polluted with high levels of bacteria are unsafe for swimming.
Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources lacks the manpower to test as much as 90 percent of the state’s waterways for pollutants like E. coli, the nasty buggers that caused such a commotion last summer at the Lake of the Ozarks. The rivers, creeks, streams and lakes that the state has tested and deemed “impaired” wind up on the Final Consolidated 2008 303(d) List (2010’s list isn’t yet
final).
We’ve compiled a list of the 52 water bodies on the 2008 list that are too poopy for swimming, according to the DNR. If
you find yourself floating down any of the following waterways this
summer, keep your mouth closed and your open wounds under wraps:
