Comments on: Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water… http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/ News, Muse and Reviews Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: dj http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5384 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:03:02 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5384 Maybe they could put that in the Grande Bay brochure- something about enjoying the beautiful, clean water- that will cost extra for you! LOL! laugh out loud FOCL! fall off camel laughing hee hee ha ha Maybe they could put that in the Grande Bay brochure- something about enjoying the beautiful, clean water- that will cost extra for you! LOL! laugh out loud FOCL! fall off camel laughing hee hee ha ha

]]> by: David http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5351 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:30:30 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5351 What comes out of that big pipe by the dock is runoff from rain on the roads. Anything on the streets ends up in the harbor! Sewage is treated and pumped out to sea beyond where the barges come in. I would never swim in Cruz Bay. After heavy rains many of the beaches will have a higher bacteria count but will dissipate soon after. What comes out of that big pipe by the dock is runoff from rain on the roads. Anything on the streets ends up in the harbor! Sewage is treated and pumped out to sea beyond where the barges come in. I would never swim in Cruz Bay. After heavy rains many of the beaches will have a higher bacteria count but will dissipate soon after.

]]> by: dj http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5350 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:52:35 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5350 I don't mean to add fuel to a fire- but I was told by a local professional who shall go unnamed never to swim in an area like Coral Bay harbour or ANYWHERE there are a lot of live-aboard sailboats in a bay. The reason why is that most(#-?) of these live-aboards are dumping their sewage and who only knows what else overboard. Hey - that is a lot easier than taking the sewage and waste to shore and responsibly disposing of it. I don’t mean to add fuel to a fire- but I was told by a local professional who shall go unnamed never to swim in an area like Coral Bay harbour or ANYWHERE there are a lot of live-aboard sailboats in a bay. The reason why is that most(#-?) of these live-aboards are dumping their sewage and who only knows what else overboard. Hey - that is a lot easier than taking the sewage and waste to shore and responsibly disposing of it.

]]> by: Lynn Blaisdell http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5347 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:28:45 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5347 Are we really surpridsd by this finding?!! Are we really surpridsd by this finding?!!

]]> by: mary beth http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5345 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:14:38 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5345 hey! that little purse wasn't there first thing this morning, was it????? I want a Bongo easter egg! hey! that little purse wasn’t there first thing this morning, was it?????
I want a Bongo easter egg!

]]> by: Rosi http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5344 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:05:38 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5344 I still think it odd that the powers that be wanted the beach to be a swimming beach. I think that was their excuse to get the boats gone and clean the area up...... I still think it odd that the powers that be wanted the beach to be a swimming beach. I think that was their excuse to get the boats gone and clean the area up……

]]> by: Pianogrl http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5343 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:50:26 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5343 Of course there'll be harmful bacteria there if that's where sewage is being dumped. Why doesn't the EPA work to get it cleaned up? I wasn't planning on swimming there anyway, but certainly won't ever consider it now...yuk! Of course there’ll be harmful bacteria there if that’s where sewage is being dumped. Why doesn’t the EPA work to get it cleaned up? I wasn’t planning on swimming there anyway, but certainly won’t ever consider it now…yuk!

]]> by: dj http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5340 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:08:49 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5340 I swam there last trip a few months ago. I swam near the dingy dock right in front of High Tide Restaurant, where I noticed the pipes coming in on the ground. I didn't think that they could be sewage pipes, but learned later they are. The ocean floor in that area feels gooey soft- not a good gooey soft but a gross gooey soft. At the time I remember thinking it felt like I was walking on crap, but I still swam there. When I later learned I was walking on crap, it horrified me. I will never swim on that beach again, and I used to swim in the most polluted river in the world- the Potomac. I swam there last trip a few months ago. I swam near the dingy dock right in front of High Tide Restaurant, where I noticed the pipes coming in on the ground. I didn’t think that they could be sewage pipes, but learned later they are. The ocean floor in that area feels gooey soft- not a good gooey soft but a gross gooey soft. At the time I remember thinking it felt like I was walking on crap, but I still swam there. When I later learned I was walking on crap, it horrified me. I will never swim on that beach again, and I used to swim in the most polluted river in the world- the Potomac.

]]> by: Lysa http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5339 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:34:07 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5339 "Well I LOVE that dirty water...ooooh, Cruz Bay your my home." I wish! “Well I LOVE that dirty water…ooooh, Cruz Bay your my home.”

I wish!

]]> by: Karen http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5338 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:16:57 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5338 Clean it up! Clean it up!

]]> by: rob http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5336 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:35:22 +0000 http://www.on-stjohn.com/2007/12/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water%e2%80%a6/#comment-5336 I'd swim in it. I'm originally from NJ, you know. We thrive in that kind of stuff! I’d swim in it. I’m originally from NJ, you know. We thrive in that kind of stuff!

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