Public beaches at Pomme de Terre, Harry S. Truman and Wakonda state parks will be closed this weekend due to high levels of E. coli, a bacterial marker for other dangerous, waste-borne pathogens. The Department of Natural Resources measured E. coli colonies at Wakonda State Park at three times the limit for a single, 100-milliliter water sample.
But some people gotta see the poop to believe it. This is the Show-Me State, after all.
Signs will be posted at each beach, telling visitors not to swim. But that warning won't deter everybody, according to a story published July 10 in the Columbia Missourian. "As long as you go home and take a shower right away, you'll be fine," one beachgoer at a bacteria-tainted beach told the Missourian.
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