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Originally Posted by Eskimo
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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 by the dirt ramp 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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wow, the triangle claims another! I can understand the no pfd, mid water, hypothermia situation but at the boat ramp in the summer? must be more to that story.
