Posted on 07/10/2010 11:42:41 AM PDT by Outside da Box
Film buffs might recognize the Los Angeles River as the gigantic concrete gutter used for car chases in "Grease," "Terminator 2" and other movies.
But the river is something else for U.S. EPA: "a traditional navigable water."
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's declaration of the cement-lined channel today as "navigable" is aimed at allowing her agency to enforce Clean Water Act protections throughout the river's 834-square-mile watershed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
If LA doesn’t sue, they’re farther gone than I thought.
Thanks for those pictures! I happen to like LA a lot, despite its many flaws.
They also said the move shows that Western rivers, despite their propensity to run dry because they are overtapped for irrigation and drinking supplies...
Sorry, but irrigation and drinking supplies are kind of necessary. If they want to do this for the recreational benefit of the folks in LA, how about coming through with a billion dollars for desalination plants? Israel runs on them.
But the whole objective of Obama is to destroy the US. He wants to use these restrictions to destroy the California agricultural industry. This actually started under Bush, whose EPA had gotten out of hand, and now it's rolling on its own.
You could take a Navigator down there 
Sorry, but irrigation and drinking supplies are kind of necessary. If they want to do this for the recreational benefit of the folks in LA, how about coming through with a billion dollars for desalination plants? Israel runs on them.
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Actually that would be a win/win/win ,, build nuke power plants for electric power during the daytime , run desalinization off of the excess power at night , and reduce or eliminate the old filthy power plants that have purposely not been upgraded in decades because an upgrade would mean making the entire powerplant compliant with todays regs (yes the EPA in a backhanded way is creating pollution). It might even spawn some new industry that is not feasible now ,, aluminum and iron production , selling salt (that super trendy “sea salt”) , creating chlorine and other salt products...
Well, put her in a boat and see if she floats.
Navigable by cars and other motor vehicles, but not by boat except during heavy rainstorms.
Add this to the EPA’s intention to regulate so called ‘greenhouse gases’ and it becomes clear that the EPA must be stopped.
No water, not navigable by canoe.
There they go again. Not a usable brain in sight.
Kinda cool looking in a futuristic dystopian way.
Sounds good to me. But it might work and completely transform the situation, so we’ll never do it.
Obama really isn’t interested in improving anything in America for Americans, and I think he thrives on the negative, anti-technological mindset.
Brew 302 use to get its water out of the L.A. wash.
Good stuff huh?
NOt quite like those who use Rocky Mountain spring water now is it?
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