Lake Anna This Weekend

[Anonymous]

Trying to decide if it’s safe to go swimming at Lake Anna this weekend. The news reports don’t say much but enough to make me wonder if we should postpone.

[Anonymous]

E. Coli? Hard no since it’s known. Skip

[Anonymous]

Postpone? I wouldn't have it as a plan to go, anytime.

[Anonymous]

If you want to be like the Simpson fish and grow a third eye than its a great place to swim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be like the Simpson fish and grow a third eye than its a great place to swim.

You know nothing about the lake. Go back to your hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trying to decide if it’s safe to go swimming at Lake Anna this weekend. The news reports don’t say much but enough to make me wonder if we should postpone.

It depends on where you are going. You need to be more specific about the report.

[Anonymous]

I would not let my kids swim in it after hearing about the children hospitalized. Not worth the risk. I’d skip as I would be paranoid all weekend.

[Anonymous]

"Two children released from hospital after Lake Anna trip, health officials investigate"

LAKE ANNA, Va. (7News) — Two of the four children hospitalized after a Memorial Day Weekend trip to Lake Anna are out of the hospital, the parents told 7News Health and Wellness Reporter Victoria Sanchez.

7News was the first to report on “lab-confirmed cases” of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria contracted by children who were at Lake Anna. On Friday, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) said it was looking into where the bacteria originated from. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the VDH Office of Epidemiology are also investigating.

https://wjla.com/news/health/lake-anna-children-two-hospital-released-health-officials-e-coli-shiga-toxin-sandbar-louisa-virginia-childrens-national-hospital-medical-infection-safety-environmental-quality-parties-feces-waste-pediatric-recovering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trying to decide if it’s safe to go swimming at Lake Anna this weekend. The news reports don’t say much but enough to make me wonder if we should postpone.

We've rented homes on Lake Anna a few times, we just don't swim in the water (we rent boats, go fishing). But not because of the nuclear reactors. Similar to many lakes and rivers in this region, Lake Anna water quality suffers from farmland run off impact. So that's an ongoing issue that some ignore, and others pay attention to. I remember the first time we rented a place on the Shenandoah back during COVID and I read that there was a do not swim advisory in place. At which point I did some research and found out this farmland runoff issue is a widespread problem along with algae blooms and such.

Bottom line. While they say it's probably ok to water ski and go tubing since you spend little time actually in the water, we just don't risk it. Given the recent sicknesses reported, I'd be even more skeptical about letting my kids swim in the lake.

[Anonymous]

Stay out please there are kids on dialysis from recent swims in the lake and others hospitalized still

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to decide if it’s safe to go swimming at Lake Anna this weekend. The news reports don’t say much but enough to make me wonder if we should postpone.

We've rented homes on Lake Anna a few times, we just don't swim in the water (we rent boats, go fishing). But not because of the nuclear reactors. Similar to many lakes and rivers in this region, Lake Anna water quality suffers from farmland run off impact. So that's an ongoing issue that some ignore, and others pay attention to. I remember the first time we rented a place on the Shenandoah back during COVID and I read that there was a do not swim advisory in place. At which point I did some research and found out this farmland runoff issue is a widespread problem along with algae blooms and such.

Bottom line. While they say it's probably ok to water ski and go tubing since you spend little time actually in the water, we just don't risk it. Given the recent sicknesses reported, I'd be even more skeptical about letting my kids swim in the lake.

Yes it’s an ongoing problem. Not worth the risk. In general, don’t go anywhere near one of these lakes if you have any sort of cut on your skin.

[Anonymous]

We were at the lake the same weekend those kids got sick. My 15 year old and her 4 friends swam and rode tubes all day long. No one got sick but we were in the middle of the lake/ deep water.

[Anonymous]

Ew.

[Anonymous]

They are building houses there like crazy. All houses on septic. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a doomsday person but with the very recent reports about kids getting sick and hospitalized after swimming at Lake Anna, I certainly wouldn't go in the water THIS weekend or for a while afterwards