[Reborn]

Sorry, I don't buy swimming in the Meramec from Valley Park downstream anytime, much less early in the AM. Have you looked at that water closely.

I live about 5 minutes away from Valley Park and the River. No one I know swims in the Meramec. YUK!!

[johnb838]

We used to canoe in the Meramac when I was a little boy and shoot my Daddy's rifle at stuff on the bank. One time I had a perfect shot at a gopher sitting on its haunches on a stump but was too squeamish to pull the trigger. Guess I was never cut out to be a hunter. It was in Grandma's old wooden canoe. Those were some of the best days of my life. Hate to remember them in this context.

Anyway, point being even back then (maybe especially back then, in the sixties) I wouldn't have dipped a toe in that river. Very very muddy. Great for canoeing, not for swimming.

[Desdemona]

"No one I know swims in the Meramec."

No kidding.