[Angelina]

Here reservoirs are used for drinking so no swimming dogs or people! Hoping yours are not!

We do have beaches that have areas open to dogs; other areas not but it is a fight to keep it that way. In fact, SF is now at war trying to close a beach / field that has been open to dogs for decades. Of course it only takes a few people that allow dogs with bad behaviors loose or who don't pick up after themselves to ruin it....

Where I live our tidal lagoon was restored by Audubon....the homeowners own the water and they own the land. I had to negotiate an agree with them (had to hire lawyers and take it to city council) to allow "swimming dogs off leash but under voice control". If they had it their way; every time a dog touched the shored you would put it on leash, throw the ball, take it off. Of course we do not but at least we have an agreement they can swim off leash. It was a miracle we got them to accept it and had to trade some land for them to dig a feeder canal in return.

It is fustrating indeed.....

 

[Angelina]

Here we do not allow motorized boats either. It could be we don't have snow melt or enough run off but even the watershed where the reservoirs are do not allow unleashed dogs except on fireroads. It is a big problem from pee and poop. But we do have the beaches, inlets and rivers and there are differences between being state run, local or federal.