Corps of Engineers: Water Safety Reminder for Memorial Day Weekend.News Editors FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2003 As Memorial Day approaches, everyone is making plans to spend it at their favorite lake. Officials with the Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, would like to remind everyone to play it safe during the first holiday weekend of the recreation season. "This weekend will officially open the summer recreation season, bringing with it thousands of water-loving people to our lakes," said Lt. Col. Robert Morris, Fort Worth District Engineer. "It's often a family event or the first chance to try out that new boat or jet ski Jet Ski A trademark used for a personal watercraft. jet ski Noun a small self-propelled vehicle resembling a scooter, which skims across water on a flat keel jet skiing n ." The Fort Worth District operates and maintains 25 lakes in Texas The following is a list of lakes in the state of Texas in the United States.
"We want to remind folks to be alert and extremely cautious while they are in or around the water so they can come back again and again during the summer," Morris said. "This year, we've already had six people drown and every one of these deaths was preventable." Common mistakes include lapses in adult supervision of small children, swimming beyond the boundaries of swimming areas, alcohol and drug abuse, reckless operation of personal watercraft personal watercraft n. 1. A motorized recreational water vehicle normally ridden by straddling a seat. 2. (used with a pl. verb) Such water vehicles considered as a group. , diving from banks into unknown depths, skiing in congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. areas, overexertion overexertion horses appear to be able to race beyond their real capacity when they are not properly fit and develop pulmonary edema as a result. , swimming in undesignated areas and overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. of boats. Morris also cautions boaters to be especially alert since the lakes will be crowded. |
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