From Health magazine
Nancy Stoner is the project manager of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual report Testing the Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches.
Janice Nolen is the assistant vice president of national policy and advocacy at the American Lung Association; she directs the organization’s annual State of the Air report.
Ruth Frechman, RD, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, owns On The Weigh, a nutrition-counseling service in Burbank, California.
Elizabeth Joy, MD, MPH, is a family-and-sports-medicine physician at the University of Utah and spokeswoman for the American College of Sports Medicine’s “Exercise Is Medicine” Task Force.
Lois Howes, president of the Long Island, New York Chapter of the American Society of Travel Agents, has been a vacation planner for more than 20 years; she currently works at Sterling Travel in Freeport.
Lynn Abrahamson, MPH, RN, is chairwoman of the Committee on Affiliates of the American Public Health Association and director of health for the Bristol-Burlington Health District in Connecticut.
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Just to advise Osage Beach Missouri is far from healthiest. Most of the public beachs are closed due to high bacteria levels in the lake.
Yes, the beaches in both public parks WERE closed after weeks of excessive rainfall, flooding, etc.
However, according to reports in the newspaper last week, the engineers who test the water reported the waters at the beaches no longer test as being contaminated and they opened the beaches to the public for swimming.
I have known Bonita Springs, FL beaches for 17+ years and they have been wonderful!
The State of Missouri DNR didn’t release the reports about Lake of Ozarks Ecol i. Contamination because it would hurt tourism. There are constant reports of contamination on the lake not just because of heavy rain.
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2009/07/16/update-state-withheld-report-e-coli-lake-ozarks/
BY The Associated Press
OSAGE BEACH — A state agency has acknowledged it withheld for one month a report that showed the Lake of the Ozarks had unsafe levels of E. coli.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources said it withheld the report in May because of concern that releasing it would hurt tourism and business around the lake, The Kansas City Star reported Thursday.
Michigan has 3,000 of incredible shoreline…and you pick an island in Lake Erie. Some expert!