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Who do you ask? There's conflicting information. Plus rivers are long and it may be safe upstream but not downstream. Is there a government office I can just call. If so is that the one useful thing the government does?

This river I'm looking at one site says there's poop and insecticides in the water. The other says the fishing is great!.

How do I get to the bottom of this without spending years studying chemistry and biochemistry and testing the water myself?

Who do you ask? There's conflicting information. Plus rivers are long and it may be safe upstream but not downstream. Is there a government office I can just call. If so is that the one useful thing the government does? This river I'm looking at one site says there's poop and insecticides in the water. The other says the fishing is great!. How do I get to the bottom of this without spending years studying chemistry and biochemistry and testing the water myself?

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We live near two lakes. One is very clean. The other is questionable. Yet, people boat, fish and swim in it. No one that I've heard of has died yet.
I prefer to stay out of the dirty looking lake though to be safe.