Spring River Issues

[Rusty]

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_338003031

[McManus]

I hate that! I grew up going to Kellogg Lake and fishing on Spring River near Carthage.

[LostMyWife]

That second reading is off the charts. We do water samples on our lake every week. They are sent to the EPA, and they determine if we can leave the lake open. We have 3 beaches, so we are regulated.

Every year the e-coli readings get high. It normally happens after a heavy rain. We have a huge population of ducks and geese for a lake our size. The have to go somehwere, and so far we can't get them to use the porta-johns. So high e-coli isn't always a problem, but I never seen one that high.