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Sea Kayak Trips Bulletin Board
Re: Veteran's Day - A Paddle on a National Disgrac
Posted By: Wes Boyd In Response To: Veteran's Day - A Paddle on a National Disgrace (Robert Woodard)
Date: Saturday, 13 November 1999, at 9:01 p.m.
> There were several floating barriers in the water and they had managed to
> collect quite a bit of trash. Quite disgusting looking, but nothing
> compared to what I was about to encounter. Once on the water and under the
> railroad bridge the water looked like a flooded landfill. You could not
> paddle without banging into all sorts of floating trash. I had paddled
> this part of the river last March, and it was dirty then, but not like
> today. Today there was more trash than there was water and I spent quite
> some time thinking about just turning around and going home. This is not a
> weekend project for 20-30 environmental volunteers to clean up, this river
> is in seriously bad shape. It needs an environmental study to determine
> the source of the trash so it can be stopped at its source from washing
> into the river. Jeez, and that's inside the beltway -- what do you think that the bozos on the hill think about those of us beyond the beltway?Bob, you've got some neat places to paddle and I envy you some of your trips. Not this one. Of course, we all have our downsides around somewhere. Just ask the guy that paddles on the Rouge River (downriver Detroit area). Makes me just as happy that I'm a country boy.
-- Wes
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