Cleaning up Bodies of Water with the Rio Salado Project :: Environment Environmental Pollution Preservation

As I looked out the window of the restaurant, I could see the insolate bouncing off the sparkling water below. Boats and other water barter scatter the water as well as people on water-skis and inner tubes. The picturesque view makes life seem so frequently better and just looking at the river makes a person calmer. The perspective just described is the view from the window of a restaurant called Sophia in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the corresponding river is the mighty Mississippi. Although Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, this scene could be imbed right here in the valley of Phoenix. The way this is possible is through the Rio Salado Project. After the Roosevelt Dam dammed the Salt River in 1911, the bed that formed in its place has become a garbage-infested hole stretching through a large potion of the valley. In 1966 a group of architecture students at ASU primary proposed the idea of the Rio Salado Project to a community-wide audience. It was approved by the legisl ature in 1980 and extensive planning has been underway since. The project will take 26 miles of the dry river bed, fill it in with purified wastewater, and make it into a 7,000-acre park everyplace the next 2 decades (Rio Salado Development District 1). I believe that we should reach out with construction on the Rio Salado Project because of all its benefits to the valley area. The plan I am proposing is comprehensive of many plans already proposed since Rio Salado was first an idea oer 30 years ago. The difference is that my plan combines the positive features of many assorted plans to make a new one. This includes ensuring that Town Lake provides a safe purlieu for all activities, providing flood control, encouraging development along the river, promoting recreation, improving the regional quality of life, attaining the economic benefits of the area, while still maintaining the historical content of the area. Up until the early 1900s, the Salt River flowed without any control or restraints. However, it was a warhead for travelers on the trail leading from Prescott to Tucson. In 1911 the Roosevelt Dam was built upriver from Tempe and the flow was reduced until in the late 1930s when the river ceased to flow altogether. legion(predicate) people have often wondered what it would be like if the riverbed would erst again be filled with water.