Ode Coyote wrote:
## Might be an acid rain difference between summer and winter?
Coal plants in the hood?
Vegetation in the river difference, maybe.
Cold water can dissolve more gases into itself [oddly enough]
Intuitive disconnect.
Don't know about acid rain, but the weather patterns here have
definitely changed. We no longer get the "polar express" arctic winds in
the winter, so the last few winters have been very warm. The last 2 in
particular. Not getting as much snow as we used ot either, so don't get
high river in the springs either. We see more birds that used to stay
far, far south, and some species that used to leave in winter now winter
over here.
And there is now a big water plant west of town that also reduces river
flow, because water from here is sold east to the next town, and west to
California. And the city built a "white water kayak park" and dredged
the river, then dumped a bunch of large boulders held together with
concrete into the river to create rapids.
Geez Ken, as always you make me think. All of the above has been in
place at least 5 years but with the warm winters maybe we are just now
seeing full effects of so much disruption of the river. Before all this,
there used to be hundreds of several species of warblers along the river
in spring and summer, American Dippers in the natural rapids, Orioles
nesting in the old, mostly dead cottonwoods (now all cut down, because
they looked ugly and can't have that in the new kayak park), and there
were muskrats in many of the natural sand bar islands in the river. Not
all the birds and wildlife are gone of course, but all those are mostly
gone or greatly reduced in numbers.
I guess I'm an old grump but I preferred it all as it was, trashy
vegetation, stagnant water and all.
What we need is a hell of a good water year or a small earthquake to
break the dam upstream (in rickety shape) and wash all this progress away.
sol
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