State park staff focuses on water safety

Water safety is not something that the team behind the Ray Roberts Lake State Park system take lightly.

That’s because the state park staff have seen the danger of the water firsthand.

“There’s rarely been a summer that’s gone by where we haven’t had a drowning on the [Isle du Bois] beach,” said Robbie Merritt, Ray Roberts Lake State Park superintendent. “We took a really hard look at that the last couple of years.”