Re: [Paddlewise] Re: Re: Los Angeles River

I don't see any graffiti on the kayaks. What's up with that?

Brad

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> wrote:

> 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.
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