Sometimes there are good things associated with such an event. The Lehigh River is a popular whitewater venue in NE Pennsylvania and is mostly dam-release driven. Usually by summertime there's little water left behind the flood control dam to sustain paddling activities. Back in the mid 90s, a freight train crossing the river had a car derail and overturn, spilling thousands and thousands of KMart plastic bags into the river. They floated for some 10-20 miles downstream, getting stuck into/onto everything. Authorities shut off the dam to a trickle while workers spent a few days going along the river picking up as many as they could. At the same time, the work was interrupted by really big thunderstorms filling up the dam backwaters. When the work was done there was a Lot of water but they couldn't just dump it, because a new pumping station was under construction about 10 miles below and all they could do was release it at a level that wouldn't flood it out. So we paddlers had weeks of very nice levels there at a time we would ordinarily been thinking of traveling much longer distances to get on the water -- thanks to those KMart bags... Joe P. -----Original Message----- >From: Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> >Sent: Dec 9, 2008 12:47 AM >To: Paddlewise <PaddleWise_at_paddlewise.net> >Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] 130,000 inflatable boobs lost at sea *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Dec 09 2008 - 07:59:14 PST
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