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Some reservoirs have a guarded swimming area, but none of them allow people to just swim freely. Swimming leads to gatherings which inevitably leads to drunken picnics with blasting music which inevitably leads to drownings.
In fact, the other week Roberto E. Figueroa-Rivera, 35, of Newark, jumped in the water at Round Valley and drowned.
Link to an article about the incident:
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ss...eing_pull.html
http://www.wfmz.com/news/western-new...voir/585606133
If you wear a PFD and look like a serious fisherman and not a picnicker, they might leave you alone. But they might not, either.
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