Mark, Probably the water is pretty good. B Been a lotta years and a lot of water down the LA river since my time down there. B Certainly municipal storm water handling is now largely separate from the systems for sewage. B (Not fully separated here, yet, however, in my town of 10000 souls. B An irony of the pristine NW is that it is typically the more isolated, smaller communities that are yet to get clean. B Yet there are a few large cities not yet fully clean, such as Victoria, BC.) The comment about nonnative vegetation was not intended as a knock. B Just an observation. B Bamboo thrives here, and can be a devil to get rid of, but certainly a nice green edge to thr river. PS B what's with all the capital B's ahead of my sentences when a message comes back from the list serv? B I am on a Samsung tablet, FWIW. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, ORMark Sanders <marksanders_at_sandmarks.net> wrote:The water looked clean and there were no bad smells the whole trip. I asked one of the Rangers in a kayak about water quality and he said most of it was a grade below drinking water. I figure other than rain runoff, most of the pollution sources have been cleaned up. The vegetation is really pretty, if not native. In the area we were in, you paddled over a concrete bed at times, but a lot of it has been broken and eroded. There talking of doing the same all along the river to let the plants come back and maybe open the river all the way to the sea. We'll see, but it was a great experience! Mark On 7/9/2013 4:33 PM, Dave Kruger wrote: > What impressed me was the vegetation, much of it non native, such as bamboo. B I assume in a gully washer it all gets flushed into the ocean. > > Mark, B did you guys sweat water quality? B When I lived in SoCal, 40 years ago, almost every crik or small waterway in urban areas as polluted from human sources ... to the extent you could smell it. *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 09 2013 - 18:44:57 PDT
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