To test my left shoulder, I kayaked from 7200 South to 5400 South, on the Jordan River.
Despite all the hype and millions of dollars to create a Jordan Parkway green belt, the Jordan River is now, more than ever (I canoed and kayaked it years ago, and it’s anecdotally worse now), a stinky, ever-diminishing and sludgy waterway that, if we don't plan ahead, will soon be nothing more than a glorified drainage ditch for all of Salt Lake waste water.
To start, we'd do well to re-direct water, from canals that no longer serve farming communities, back into their natural waterways.
I saw a couple of people fishing and one cormorant. What do these people catch? Can you eat it? I'd hate to be the fish that lived in those waters.
Time to take a bath to get rid of whatever nasty stuff I picked up on the way down.
Loren M. Lambert © August 5, 2012
Despite all the hype and millions of dollars to create a Jordan Parkway green belt, the Jordan River is now, more than ever (I canoed and kayaked it years ago, and it’s anecdotally worse now), a stinky, ever-diminishing and sludgy waterway that, if we don't plan ahead, will soon be nothing more than a glorified drainage ditch for all of Salt Lake waste water.
To start, we'd do well to re-direct water, from canals that no longer serve farming communities, back into their natural waterways.
I saw a couple of people fishing and one cormorant. What do these people catch? Can you eat it? I'd hate to be the fish that lived in those waters.
Time to take a bath to get rid of whatever nasty stuff I picked up on the way down.
Loren M. Lambert © August 5, 2012
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