would we want to paddle in polluted water. While the science of water bourn illness is not completely exact, should you actively promote others to paddle in water we know is unsafe base on EPA numbers? This is the issue I am having with some members of the Dallas paddling community. There is NO question that the water quality in the Trinity is not great. It has an unsafe for contact recreation rating from the TCEQ – Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. We have spent a large amount of money on a park and play feature here in Dallas; 4.2 million. The kayakers promoting this feature and defending it’s creation seem to be stuck on defending the feature as “ cool” and if you wimpy rec paddlers don’t like like, stay out. The issue is so much deeper than just a cool or hip issue. How do you spend public money? Do you build something like this in a know area of bad water quality with no improvement in site? Do the proponents plan on paying the expenses for legal action sought by those injured or killed by infections that were a known risk with no visible warning from the city?
