Pete in MI
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Michigan Department of Environmental Quality website.
(I know this is great for Michigan people but for other states check your own area to see if you have a DEQ agency).
This is a state agency that monitors the water quality of areas such
as lakes and beaches where people get into the water. The check for
things such as e coli and other bacteria in the water that might
cause harm to an individual or group of individuals if they go into
the water. Some of these bacterial things in the water can get very
nasty.
So you probably wonder what this has to do with metal detecting?
There are a few things of importance especially if you decide to
water detect you want to know you are not exposing yourself to some
nasty stuff. In Lansing on the Grand River a year or two back I
bought a used Fisher 1280x water detector and was going to start
detecting in the water. Well, we had flooding and when the flooding
was gone the water had e coli. (The e coli BTW was caused from the
feces of geese that do their dropping near the the water and with the
flooding that material entered the Grand River causing e coli
bacteria in the water.
Another reason for knowing about this web site...is leads. Not lead
as in the metal from car batteries or old fishing sinkers or the
stuff frome the walls, floors and aprons of hospitals using X-rau
machines but leads as hints and tips to where to detect.
I ran across this site a long time ago. I found out there were
swimming areas I had never heard of before...and this agency checks
the water at these 'unkown' sites. So I went to one one day and was
happy to come back with some change and a ring I had found in the
water.
Had I not run across this I would not have those coins or ring
because I would not have known this and other beaches and swimming
areas existed.
Check out the website.
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313_3686---,00.html
Maybe you will find a beach to detect on, at or in or ya just might want to go for a swim away from the crowds in a little known swimming hole and also know you are not swimming in the geese's septic tank.
It also lead me to some interesting places and beautiful nature spots I would not have seen or known of otherwise
(I know this is great for Michigan people but for other states check your own area to see if you have a DEQ agency).
This is a state agency that monitors the water quality of areas such
as lakes and beaches where people get into the water. The check for
things such as e coli and other bacteria in the water that might
cause harm to an individual or group of individuals if they go into
the water. Some of these bacterial things in the water can get very
nasty.
So you probably wonder what this has to do with metal detecting?
There are a few things of importance especially if you decide to
water detect you want to know you are not exposing yourself to some
nasty stuff. In Lansing on the Grand River a year or two back I
bought a used Fisher 1280x water detector and was going to start
detecting in the water. Well, we had flooding and when the flooding
was gone the water had e coli. (The e coli BTW was caused from the
feces of geese that do their dropping near the the water and with the
flooding that material entered the Grand River causing e coli
bacteria in the water.
Another reason for knowing about this web site...is leads. Not lead
as in the metal from car batteries or old fishing sinkers or the
stuff frome the walls, floors and aprons of hospitals using X-rau
machines but leads as hints and tips to where to detect.
I ran across this site a long time ago. I found out there were
swimming areas I had never heard of before...and this agency checks
the water at these 'unkown' sites. So I went to one one day and was
happy to come back with some change and a ring I had found in the
water.
Had I not run across this I would not have those coins or ring
because I would not have known this and other beaches and swimming
areas existed.
Check out the website.
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313_3686---,00.html
Maybe you will find a beach to detect on, at or in or ya just might want to go for a swim away from the crowds in a little known swimming hole and also know you are not swimming in the geese's septic tank.
It also lead me to some interesting places and beautiful nature spots I would not have seen or known of otherwise