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The river only gets clear when it stops moving. About every year the EPA does a study and list the cleanliness of the waters in a 50 mile radius around Louisville. For the last several years of seeing it before I left was the Ohio was the cleanness, the worst was Talyorsville lake. The folks look at the river and see brown, that's just silt (dirt). When the rain stops and the current slows down the dirt falls to the bottom and you can see clear as a bell down 20 feet thru the river
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Originally Posted by lake p.a.l.
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June 2016 my wife and I took my brother and his daughter and launched our 25' Eliminator Daytona on the Mississippi river just below Cairo, IL. We made the entire almost 1000 miles of the Ohio River to Pittsburgh, PA in 5 days. We especially like the area's between Cincinnati and Louisville. There are so many amazing places to beach and/or raft up all along the Ohio.
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Originally Posted by jmoore1225
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Do you swim in Harmon, or the Falls?
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There is a "cove" that has been quarried out about 22 miles upriver from Louisville (about 3 miles upriver from Westport, KY on the Indiana side). It's a great place to raft up because it is out of the current/wake of the channel and is HUGE. The bank/beach is soft too, if you're inclined to pull up there to let kids play/dogs run, etc. On any given summer weekend day, there may be up to 75-100 boats. Don't let the naysayers discourage you, the river is a great place to boat and, yes, swim. Both of these pics were in "the cove".[ATTACH=CONFIG]564084[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]564085[/ATTACH]
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Thanks for all the information, wife and I are thinking about moving our cruiser and our black thunder from one of the inland lakes in Indiana to the ohio,
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