WATER QUALITY NOTICE!

If descriptions above and below are not enough to dissuade recreational boaters from considering this run, consider the following quotes (with personal emphasis added), from years back in the Shepherd Express (a local 'alternative' newsweekly), an article entitled "Going with the Flow -- How the suburbs are helping close the beaches":

"Tests during rainfalls ... at 15 sites along waterways in Milwaukee County regularly show Ecoli and fecal coliform amounts are thousands of times higher than the EPA standards for beach closings ..."

"... numbers this high are comparable to untreated sewage."

"One study found ... about 15% of fecal coliform found in stormwater runoff is from dogs." (I.E., people who do not pick up after their pets!)

"people can get sick from water like that, but the illness may be passed off as something else since it isn't that severe."

"The highest concentrations of E.coli and fecal coliform have been found in Underwood Creek in Wauwatosa and in the Little Menomonee River"

Honey Creek also tested massively high, especially during and immediately after the week of state fair.

So . . . take all that for what you wish to make of it!