Crappie_Slayer

The lake is a river system, it rarely backflows, during the time the beaches were closed there is no way the lake was backflowing with the amount of water that was being pulled at the dam. Look on the MoDNR site at the latest samples. The July samples have been within tolerable limits, while the samples that exceeded the limits were taken at the end of May (a high water period). The mass of contamination is coming from the tributaries and it is a natural process. The amount of runoff volume that comes from lakefront properties is not even comparable to the volume that comes from the watershed. If the beach closures come during high water periods when we are getting that high volume of runnoff, wouldn't it make sense that is where the vast majority of the contaminants come from?

"it "persists" anywhere... when the source is non stop." Then why are the samples fine now? Could it be because it hasn't rained for a while? I might be that heavy rain cleans off the agricultural fields in the massive drainage area of the osage river basin and temporarily increases the ecoli levels of the lake. Truman Lake also has regular beach closings, and has zero lake front development. Furthurmore if it's failing septic systems that cause the elevated ecoli levels, one has to wonder why pb1 gets contaminated. There are no houses on the lakefront upstream from pb1.