James River Too High for Safe Swimming

This memorial weekend, it would be better to swim in one of the many neighborhood pools opening up for the season than to hit the river. RT-D is reporting:

James River Park System Manager Ralph White says high river levels from recent rains have made holiday weekend swimming risky.

“This is SOS — stay on shore. It’s not the time to be in the water,” he said. “There’s more water and it’s going faster, so what were normally benign conditions you play around with become treacherous and you don’t know it until you’re in it. It’s unrelenting.”

Stay safe, have fun, swim in the river another day!