Why did Los Angeles turn their river into this?

Why did Los Angeles turn their river into this?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Makes it easier to escape and hide on 5 stars

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No reason.
    >oh we have water moving
    >we have to make a pointless path for it to move
    Complete stupidity, redundant behavior.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I like it. It's unique. Can you really drive there like in Drive and have picnics?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah. You're not a movie star though so they will turn on the water.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >and have picnics
      just imagine the smell though

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    to keep it from flooding

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    > The heavy flow of the Los Angeles River presented many issues, as it began to get exploited as a sewer system. Along with these uses, populations surrounding the river often tossed feces and waste into the river, along with dead dogs and horses (occasional human dead), in hopes that they would get washed down stream and released to the open ocean waters
    >The farmers with the most water banded together to form the Owens Valley Irrigation District in order to try to secure a better deal. When the Owens Valley Irrigation District did not succeed, they created three smaller groups in order to try to bargain. These groups were turbulent in their efforts; resorting to violence, trying to get the attention of state and national press, and calling for politician interference to support their demands for more compensation. This conflict was so highly disputed that the national press referred to it as "California's Little Civil War."
    >The St. Francis Dam was built starting in 1924 (and through 1926), leading to the creation of a large reservoir in San Francisquito Canyon, and provided water for Los Angeles. However, the dam collapsed in 1928. Following the collapse of the dam, there was little appetite for large dams near the homes of Los Angeles' residents.
    >The incidents revolving around the Los Angeles River resulted in the Army Corps of Engineers blocking its path through a cement wall. The Army Corps of Engineers duly began an ambitious project of completely encasing the river's bed and banks in concrete, with only a trickle of water usually flowing down its middle
    >The river was dry for nine months of the year as late as the 1950s. According to an August 2013 article in the Los Angeles Times, the water in the river today is largely "industrial and residential discharge," which originates from the "two giant pipes that collect the sewage from the homes of 800,000 San Fernando Valley residents"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >tl;dr complain about river being used as a sewer
      >drain the river and create concrete causeway full of sewer
      typical

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >drain the river
        it wasn't drained, anon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >it wasn't drained
          where's the water moron

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            diverted long long before it even reaches the city
            >muh water for growing crops

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Do you think India will solve their problem with the Ganges currently by making it into a giant concrete river like in LA?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, because being an Indian government project the concrete will be substandard because of corruption and it will be washed away within a few months

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Americans suffer from something I call “effectivism”. They will sacrifice anything to make things more efficient because it’s the only way for them to cope with the lack of tradition.

    It’s a cancer consuming the American people

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So things should be inefficient?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >VGH, squalor, poverty, and inefficiency is TRVE EVROPEAN SPIRIT

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not in detriment of everything else. Examples: Highway through downtown, multi-purpose stadiums, drywall, restaurant chains, etc

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i honestly do not understand what get europeans so bizarrely obsessed with the USA like this. china? I get it, they are mad because they took their shot and even america at its worst is better than china at its best.

      but europeans have a good quality of life. things are fine. why worry so much about some river in a dumpy american city built on the desert?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >america at its worst is better than china at its best
        Not even slightly true.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        IQfy is just IQfy without flags

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >US
      >Efficient
      they can't even bulk buy medicine. But I'd agree if you say "efficient", as in, the fantasy of it being better.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Idk man I bulk buy fish penicillin. At least we can own land to grow our own medicine (comfrey, turmeric, etc.)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's called capitalism

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it's not a lack of tradition, it's literally german autism

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    forget it jack, it's chinatown

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    classic

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    where's the river?

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So that they could film Terminator 2

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Forget it op.
    Its Chinatown

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