Troubled water

[dogg57]

Four decades after the government vowed to clean up and protect New Jersey’s waterways, an effort that has cost billions of dollars since 1972, only one passes all water tests.
It’s a brook in a remote, forested part of Sussex County near the Pennsylvania border.
It is the only place in the state — as far as officials know — where you can safely swim, drink the water (after basic treatment) and eat the fish without restrictions.
The waterway, called Big Flat Brook, is clean because of its remoteness from development and polluted runoff.
All other streams, rivers, lakes and coastal waters thoroughly inspected by the state have failed at least one water quality test, an Asbury Park Press investigation found.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/ar...rsey-s-waters-far-from-clean?odyssey=nav|head

 

[bobpbx]

I don't believe that for an instant. It's the way they wrote it that makes it seem very bad. It is only those that are "thoroughly inspected by the state". Hell, that probably leaves out most!

 

[manumuskin]

I remember readin somewhere that Manumuskin creek and cedar creek (the one that runs from Bamber lake) were rated as the two purest streams in the state,both start and flow through unpopulated woodlands, as long as there are no beaver upstream I'd trust my stomach to most small barrens streams anyday,done it for years and aint got the trots yet,just know where that waters coming from.

 

[46er]

The Big Flat Brook is hardly a brook and hardly remote, but it is one of the better places one can find trout

I definitley wouldn't drink from it, and certainly wouldn't pay much attention to an APP investigation.