Texans be careful

[DirtyDan]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54313110

Dan

[DIGGER]

Yeah that's big news here.   We have a fish camp 20 miles from Lake Jackson on the Texas coast and the water system there has always recommended not to drink the water.   However this is the first time I have heard of no bathing.    If you go in the salt water on the Tx coast in the hot summer months you have to deal with "the flesh eating disease" that is a very fast moving disease with a high mortality rate.   Some kind of bacteria gets into cuts and gets infected in hrs and is very hard to stop before it eats a large hole in you usually  ending up losing a limb or dieing.  Bad ass disease.  Several  cases per yr on the Tx coast.   I personally know 3 people who have contracted it and lived.   The Texas coast get flooded several times a yr due to storms and local septic systems get raided and spread everywhere.   Lots of bacteria in the water systems in that area

[Jess Tolbirt]

my daughter and her family live in Lake Jackson, and my Son lives in Richwood, 3 miles from Lake Jackson.

[semo97]

I stopped the grandkids from swimming in our dirt tank by the house several years ago. It gets lots of runoff and over flows quite often and is spring feed. They can only kayak and fish. I stopped grazing that pasture due to cattle crapping in the water, just hay it now. In the hot summer the water temps get warm enough to grow anything good and bad.

[Alien]

Holy crap.