Topic: New Riverwalk feature!!!
Mayor Riverwalk™ !pyvqjx29qY started this discussion 6 years ago #91,580
Along my dead, burnt-out, industrial wasteland Midwewstern town's polluted river, not only do we have our barren, desolate, cement Riverwalk™, but now we have added historical signs describing made up bullshit that never actually happened in our town!
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 18 minutes later[^] [v] #1,041,344
Ohh, is it about some guy who used to live nearby and fought in the civil war?
Or maybe USAmerican Indian historical fiction?
Or maybe USAmerican Indian historical fiction?
jodi !RwordOooFE joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 10 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,041,349
but is it motorized scooter accessible?
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 20 minutes later, 49 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,041,355
> now we have added historical signs describing made up bullshit that never actually happened in our town
That actually sounds pretty cool. You could have signs about how Polyphemus used to let his sheep out to graze on this spot, or a commemorative plaque about how King Arthur slew a hundred men here before the Battle of Baden, and a bunch of "George Washington slept here" signs with some "Luke Skywalker slew Dumbledore on this hill" signs for good measure.
That actually sounds pretty cool. You could have signs about how Polyphemus used to let his sheep out to graze on this spot, or a commemorative plaque about how King Arthur slew a hundred men here before the Battle of Baden, and a bunch of "George Washington slept here" signs with some "Luke Skywalker slew Dumbledore on this hill" signs for good measure.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,041,361
Anonymous E double-posted this 6 years ago, 46 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,041,362
I’m glad my post about river walks inspired you OP we need more midwestern hateAnonymous E triple-posted this 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,041,363
I spent a week in Seattle and spent a day in vancouver and was lol’ing the entire about how shitty and pathetic people who live in places like Iowa and Ohio are
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 47 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,041,389
An estimated 30 companies now rent out all likes of pleasure craft along the Chicago River, from kayaks and small pontoon boats to larger power boats. Suddenly, at least to those of us who've lived here more than a few years, the banks of the Chicago River have been transformed, as Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin put it, "from a hard-edged industrial waterfront to a welcoming post-industrial amenity."
Or as Mayor Rahm Emanuel — who secured nearly $99 million in federal loans to pay for the transformation — likes to call it, "the next great recreational frontier in Chicago."
Just one caution: Don't jump in.
The water is cleaner than it used to be, and tends to be cleanest downtown. But we were reminded recently just how "ewwwww, gross" the water can be when we read Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne's description of the state of the Chicago River. The water, he found, is "teeming with pathogens" including fecal bacteria and poses "stomach-churning health risks to people who come in contact with the murky flow."
Buried in the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's website, Hawthorne found a jargon-filled collection of spreadsheets showing levels of disease-causing germs "frequently spiking tens of thousands of times above legal limits."
Two efforts, the $3 billion Deep Tunnel project and a plan to start disinfecting sewage before it flows into the Chicago River, are moving along.
A new disinfection system at a plant in Skokie, scheduled to be operating by spring, will help. Conventional sewage treatment is a three-step process that skims out solid waste, breaks down organic matter and disinfects whatever remains. For decades, environmental regulators allowed Chicago to skip that last step. The new equipment is expected to significantly clean up the 333 million gallons of effluent pumped daily into the river.
Or as Mayor Rahm Emanuel — who secured nearly $99 million in federal loans to pay for the transformation — likes to call it, "the next great recreational frontier in Chicago."
Just one caution: Don't jump in.
The water is cleaner than it used to be, and tends to be cleanest downtown. But we were reminded recently just how "ewwwww, gross" the water can be when we read Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne's description of the state of the Chicago River. The water, he found, is "teeming with pathogens" including fecal bacteria and poses "stomach-churning health risks to people who come in contact with the murky flow."
Buried in the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's website, Hawthorne found a jargon-filled collection of spreadsheets showing levels of disease-causing germs "frequently spiking tens of thousands of times above legal limits."
Two efforts, the $3 billion Deep Tunnel project and a plan to start disinfecting sewage before it flows into the Chicago River, are moving along.
A new disinfection system at a plant in Skokie, scheduled to be operating by spring, will help. Conventional sewage treatment is a three-step process that skims out solid waste, breaks down organic matter and disinfects whatever remains. For decades, environmental regulators allowed Chicago to skip that last step. The new equipment is expected to significantly clean up the 333 million gallons of effluent pumped daily into the river.