New Orleans should drink the brackish floodwater to prevent death from dehydration. Don't risk it.Īn interesting article from Slate in 2005 asked whether people in post-Katrina The NIH article cited above discusses ground water contamination, which is much less concentrated than surface water. The long term effects of drinking this kind of contaminated water are not known, since so few people drink such bad But nitrates from nitrogen fertilizers may cause cancer. Because we were in a pinch, we have drank from ditches and agricultural canals in the past. canals within the Everglades Agricultural Area (lands between the Seminole reservation and Clewiston)ĭrinking water contaminated with fertilizers, pesticides, and more kill you? Not instantly, of course.In our opinion, the most polluted waters on-trail are: Assume that all lakes, large ponds, rivers, and canals are heavily polluted and thus off limits asĭrinking water sources. Water filtration systems for backpackers cannot remove these chemicals. Suburban lawns pour tons of fertilizers into waterways, causing persistently high levels of algae, which smothers aquatic plants and causes water to have a milky-green color. Rain washes oil and other petrochemicals from highways into watersheds. bad - lakes, rivers, canals, ditches, retention ponds, anything near a road, creeks influenced by tidesĬitrus groves and cattle pastures dump pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers into creeks and rivers.good - swamps, marshes, cypress domes, springs, sinkholes, small ponds, small streams and creeks, man-made wells.Our guidelines to help you do that are below.
Polluted, and hikers need to be able to assess whether a water source is safe or not. The Florida Trail passes many bodies of water that are Ridgelines and so forth, and due to Florida's flat topography, few bodies of water are safe from exposure to agricultural and other runoff. So here's the bad news: Since there are no mountains, the Florida Trail cannot isolate hikers from pollutants that accumulate in valleys by keeping them high along The "dirty" water that disgusts some hikers on the PCT is the norm on the FT.Īcceptance of this fact will be important to enjoying your thru-hike. No water source on the Florida Trail will resemble the clear mountain springs and springs found along the PCT and AT. On the AT we have seen a lot of hikers drink directly from springs without filtering or treating the water first, convinced it was safe because it Rather than scoop and filter this water, they filled bottles directlyįrom the trickling pipe embedded in the rock. Pooling in troughs from piped springs - filled as they were with wriggling mosquito larva, algae, dead leaves, et cetera. On the PCT, we have seen hikers grimace at the water Have you already hiked the PCT or the AT? Then you'll need to change your expectations about drinking water sources on the Florida Trail.
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