Jordan River Restoration Project--The Bad
GALLERY: Jordan River Restoration Project--The Bad
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Russian Thistle, one of the invasive plants that dominate the river corridor.
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Fully furnished transient camp
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Abandoned transient camp near Union Pacific rail line.
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300 shopping carts removed from river in 6 years. But they keep coming...
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River booty.
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Proud community cleanup team, with grappling hooks and river booty. Great Salt Lake Keepers cleanup, July 2006.
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The Jordan River is essentially a city dump. You can find anything there!
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You could remove dozens of bags of trash a day from a single mile of river--day after day after day...
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Carpet removal along the Jordan near a mosque at 2700 South.
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Nitrogen-fed vegetation mats bloom in mid-summer, causing water oxygen levels to surge during the day and crash at night. Indigenous fish can't handle the warm water and fluxuating oxygen levels.
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Garbagewoman Amy O'Connor
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Project Director Ray Wheeler explores a floating trash island below the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge at 100 South
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Automotive detritus at the mouth of Mill Creek, July 2006
This gallery provides a virtural tour of The Bad and The Ugly aspects of the Jordan River corridor; the massive impacts that a century and a half of human activity have wrought--pollution, sedimentation, dredging, deforestation, hardscaping, chanelization, damming, near-extirpation of native plants and animals, urban blight, industrialization--and, of course, a torrent of garbage and sewage.
Just your typical urban river.
Jordan River Restoration Project
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