OT: Accidental beach

[oilers'72]

I wouldn't drink water out of any river or lake directly. Doesn't mean that all of them are unsafe for swimming.

 

[Cawz]

I'm not going nuts or exaggerating these are standards set by health canada. I laughed at the post that said there was no problem with the water and you guys are conditioned to attacked a "BCer."

I'm an Albertan, I grew up fishing in lakes like Isle, Pigeon, and La Nonne, none of which your children will ever get to experience because of the "who cares" attitude that is showing up in this thread.


I have taken thousands of CFU samples from the NS over twenty years. How many have you guys taken? lmao

So did you take thousands of samples or analyze thousands of samples? Because the person who takes the samples isn’t the same person who analyzes them, since its not a cost effective business model to send your lab technicians out to the field to take thousands of samples.

And you exaggerated when you said the water in the river is similar to what is being seen in Texas after the Hurricane. Do you stand by that statement and have anything to back it up, or was that an exaggeration?

And the standards set forth by Health Canada are for Primary Contact recreation. Secondary contact, which is defined as recreational activity in which limbs are regularly wetted and in which greater contact (including swallowing water) is unusual, is a different case. In this case, a factor of 5 is assessed to the concentrations. So that means that the water has been clean for wading and swimming without swallowing water the entire summer (unless there have been samples over 1000), and clean for swimming including swallowing water for half the samples. And that’s just by Health Canada standards, which includes a large safety factor in our bubble-wrap society. The whole Health Canada guidelines are due to gastrointestinal illness observed among swimmers, which is the reason for distinguishing between primary and secondary contact.

Tldr – Youre exaggerating, Don’t drink the water and youre fine. Even if you do drink the water, youre fine for the most part (but people shouldn’t do that on any body of water unless you are high in the mountains and it’s a fast moving stream).

 

[joestevens29]

So did you take thousands of samples or analyze thousands of samples? Because the person who takes the samples isn’t the same person who analyzes them, since its not a cost effective business model to send your lab technicians out to the field to take thousands of samples.

And you exaggerated when you said the water in the river is similar to what is being seen in Texas after the Hurricane. Do you stand by that statement and have anything to back it up, or was that an exaggeration?

And the standards set forth by Health Canada are for Primary Contact recreation. Secondary contact, which is defined as recreational activity in which limbs are regularly wetted and in which greater contact (including swallowing water) is unusual, is a different case. In this case, a factor of 5 is assessed to the concentrations. So that means that the water has been clean for wading and swimming without swallowing water the entire summer (unless there have been samples over 1000), and clean for swimming including swallowing water for half the samples. And that’s just by Health Canada standards, which includes a large safety factor in our bubble-wrap society. The whole Health Canada guidelines are due to gastrointestinal illness observed among swimmers, which is the reason for distinguishing between primary and secondary contact.

Tldr – Youre exaggerating, Don’t drink the water and youre fine. Even if you do drink the water, youre fine for the most part (but people shouldn’t do that on any body of water unless you are high in the mountains and it’s a fast moving stream).

Or if you have some sort of project you want out of. No one wants a guy in the office with a stomach proplem.

 

[Cawz]

Or if you have some sort of project you want out of. No one wants a guy in the office with a stomach proplem.

Getting beaver fever seems like an odd way to get out of a project...

 

[BleedingOil]

People swim the yangtze river in china(and probably many others just as bad) and live very long. The nsr is pristine compared to that

 

[Bangers]

Getting beaver fever seems like an odd way to get out of a project...

I have a lifelong case of beaver fever ... oh wait, you're talking about giardiasis...