I've been on all the lakes and rivers up there, and let me tell ya; Most of them I would drink water straight out of. I went and put in downtown on the TR early one 4th of July to watch the fireworks later on and thought I would fish all day until then. Not only is there trash on every bank extending a foot into the river along the whole thing, I had to try and not hook dirty diapers. It was so disgusting I didn't stay. I left and went to Cherokee, then watched fireworks from the mountain overlook.