24 thoughts on “Happy Birthday, Elephant Butt!

        1. Zombie Edward Abbey would be so pleased if Glen Canyon came down. Too bad he didn't live to see the Colorado Delta reawaken in the Sea of Cortez, or the dam removal that Oregon and Washington have done.

          ABQ hasn't demolished urban freeways, quite the opposite in fact. But they incorporate vestiges of the natural arroyos that they replaced, as seen in this here interactive arroyo map: https://206.25.254.11/ (don't mind the security certificate warning — what could possibly go wrong from connecting to an insecure website?)

          1. Whew, not the user-friendliest GIS interface ever. Mostly I see that every drop of stormwater and (one hopes) treated sewage finds its way to the river, as God intended.

            San Diego dumped raw sewage into San Diego Bay until WW II, when they Navy said, "Dude, we gotta live here. How 'bout we build you a nice STP for free?" And that's the one we're using today, EPA be damned. Just make the pipe out into the ocean a little longer.

          1. Hadn't thought of that.
            Maybe offer a new miracle cure and get it on those taboola 'One simple trick ' links.

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