Here in south-central Pennsylvania, there are not many places to do open water swimming. That may seem hard to believe, but most of the rivers/lakes are either on private land or pretty nasty places due to pollution (farm run-off, esp.) The few places that there are to swim are usually in parks and are regulated out the wazoo. (A friend of mine was arrested earlier this year for training out of bounds at one of the state parks.) For those of you who do freshwater training swims, how do you deal with/circumvent the legal issues or do they not apply in your area? I realize that saltwater swimming is a different story, but we are several hours from the nearest saltwater - too far for regular swims.
Or is freshwater training all "Jersey legal" - i.e. legal as long as you don't get caught?
-LBJ
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Almost all lakes are so polluted where I live that they are unswimable. We used to have beautiful strip mine lakes. However, the federal govenment made stipmining companies full them in. Now we have our "BEAUTIFUL" meadows back and no clean water to swim in. When the strip mine lakes were filled, many fish & other wildlife that had grown dependent on the lakes had a very rough time adjusting (esp. the fish inthe lakes).
When I was in college, friends & I would goto the lakes & swim for hours. Now they are all gone. The landwas to be retruined to farmers, however, most of the land is unused.
Almost all lakes are so polluted where I live that they are unswimable. We used to have beautiful strip mine lakes. However, the federal govenment made stipmining companies full them in. Now we have our "BEAUTIFUL" meadows back and no clean water to swim in. When the strip mine lakes were filled, many fish & other wildlife that had grown dependent on the lakes had a very rough time adjusting (esp. the fish inthe lakes).
When I was in college, friends & I would goto the lakes & swim for hours. Now they are all gone. The landwas to be retruined to farmers, however, most of the land is unused.
