It was so warm that a couple people waded into Jamaica Pond - in swimsuits.
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Risk to Life
By In The Know
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 8:24am
Jamaica pond prohibits swimming, wading, and even dunking. The water is not that clean and has a very sharp drop off near the shore and lots of unseen vegetation and obstacles not that far below the surface that can be a source of entanglement. You can actually be ticketed for going into the water there if caught. Not wise. Ill-informed people. There have been numerous drownings there hence the prohibition.
Thank you, Nanny. Without
By Nanny
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 2:25pm
Thank you, Nanny. Without your Internet presence, we'd all kill ourselves before Patriot's Day.
JP Pond
By Ellen
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 8:35am
There is a reason why the city of Boston does not allow swimming in the pond. The water is not clean
Government, get the heck off my back
By Gary C
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 10:02am
People swim daily at Walden Pond and it's a wonderful thing. Jamaica pond should be for the recreational use of the people. As someone who grew up on a lake, I'll never understand why many Bostonians freak out about the idea of people swimming in a public body of water.
Safety
By BostonDog
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 10:09am
The water cleanliness isn't a big deal but it should be monitored if public swimming is to occur so it can be closed if harmful bacteria levels get too high.
At Walden pond they have an actual beach, emergency equipment, phones, etc. Boston doesn't want to build and maintain that and I don't blame them. Walden also has a pee-pee problem but that's not a reason to avoid it. (It is a reason to use the provided restrooms.)
Upper Mystic lake in Medford is probably the closest freshwater body with free public swimming. It gets pretty crowded in the summer.
Peepee
By 617MoFoBecauseM...
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 1:07pm
Peepee. Heehee.
Walden also has a pee-pee
By Poo-Poo Ca-Ca.
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 2:23pm
So you think that where there is pee-pee, there will be no poo-poo? Tests of public swimming pools say otherwise - where there is one, there will be found the other, and in significant amounts.
Not very smart
By lbb
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 10:15am
Jamaica Pond is a concentrated puddle of goose feces. Walden Pond, not so much. Have fun with the parasites.
We don't "freak out" about
By CH
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 10:26am
We don't "freak out" about people swimming in "a public body of water", it's this specific body of water. Numerous people have died there over the years and many more have had to be rescued. It's not a safe lake and the public has decided we don't want to be on the hook for dragging risk-takers back to shore.
Objectively how dangerous is it?
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 9:53pm
The Mass Turnpike has certainly killed a lot more people than Jamaica Pond...
I know, denominators and all that, but "people have died there" is kind of a shitty basis for policy.
Transplants --- cuz if you
By my 2 cents
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 11:09am
Transplants --- cuz if you grew up around here, you'd know better.