CHEERS
To Dog Days for taking on Aquapalooza
Sea Ray boats and MarineMax wanted to throw another on-the-water party to celebrate the boating experience, a way-cool idea. Residents of Chimney Cove where it was planned didn’t want 2,000 boats destroying their property. Bummer. Cheers to the Max and Water Patrol for finding a good solution. Now if they’d just get that barefoot performer out on the main stage, it’d be a great day.
To the Water Safety Council for working with the Missouri State Water Patrol to push for safe boating on Lake of the Ozarks.
To MoDOT, elected officials and others who helped bring about the opening of the new Route 5 around Camdenton. The city had decidedly different ‘feel’ on Tuesday after Monday’s ribbon cutting and other celebrations marked the official opening. On Tuesday, cars were rolling on the new highway. Cheers for a job well done.
AND JEERS
To DNR for stonewalling water quality report
Is it safe to assume they wouldn't let their families go swimming in the tainted coves? Shouldn't the taxpayers who fund the DNR bureaucrats' salaries expect the same consideration? Six weeks is 41 days too long to wait to inform the public about health considerations. We expect better from DNR management and readers should too. Now in its third year, Lake of the Ozarks Watershed Alliance volunteers collect the samples, AmerenUE pays for the testing, and DNR officials wait six weeks to release the results that included some coves more than 10 times over the acceptable threshold for E. coli. What is wrong with this picture? Perhaps AmerenUE and LOWA should find someone else to do the testing.
