Sweeney wrote:
Monastero wrote:
How concerned would you be swimming in the bay? I know boaters dump bio-waste in there. Pretty gross
I don't know how responsible boaters are with their bi-waste, but Zachs Bay, where they all anchor on nice days and for the concerts, with the other boats around, doesn't seem like the most likely place for them to pump out their crap tanks. They only have to go about a mile to be in the open water of the L I Sound to do their dirty deeds.
I've never swam at that end of Zach's bay by the amphitheater, but I've swam at Tobay beach in the center and there's always a current, in or out and it's never seemed dirty or smelly.
But even with that, triathletes have been swimming in some of the crummiest water that race directors could find since the sport was invented. Triathlon was founded at Fiesta Island in San Diego. Before the found it, Fiesta was an industial waste dump.
Don't even mention the Hudson, it's a super-fund site. When the open water swim races in NYC were cancelled because of sewage run-off, NYC Triathlon went on. We've all swam in bed, dirty water. Zach's bay will not be one of those places.
Think you need to work on your geography a bit... LI Sound is on the north side of LI, only way a boat is getting there is on a trailer for 15+ miles or going around montauk or through NYC. The bigger body of water is South Oyster Bay, and if you snake around to the west you get to the Atlantic ocean via Jones Inlet.
The Tidal range on Zachs Bay is about 2' that is a lot of volume of water flushing in and out of the various inlets between the barrier beach islands 2x a day.. Right now the last concert at JBT is on the 17th, so we should be safe.. 13 flushes of the tidal system between then and race day.