Comments on: Around the Water Cooler: Showing Buried Streams the Daylight http://blog.epa.gov/science/2012/09/around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2 It All Starts with Science - An EPA Blog about Science Matters Mon, 20 May 2013 18:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lahne http://blog.epa.gov/science/2012/09/around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2/#comment-155 Lahne Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:30:37 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/science/?p=1048#comment-155 I absolutely agree. San Antonio is a beautiful city. I drove through around the holidays once and the River Walk was breathtaking. So glad it wasn’t buried – besides, think of the economic impact from tourism alone!

]]> By: Lahne http://blog.epa.gov/science/2012/09/around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2/#comment-154 Lahne Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:29:04 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/science/?p=1048#comment-154 Maybe you can share some of the research on buried streams with developers and city planners there. China has a great opportunity to be one of the “greenest” countries as it develops. Definitely learn from our mistakes. Cities are beautiful and full of great architecture, but even better and more attractive with trees, plants and rivers above ground. More costly to “unbury” than to not bury to begin with. Good luck!

]]> By: Lahne http://blog.epa.gov/science/2012/09/around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2/#comment-153 Lahne Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:26:51 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/science/?p=1048#comment-153 Thanks Arman, it’s a beautiful city and so glad there are the rivers.

]]> By: Stephen Colley http://blog.epa.gov/science/2012/09/around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2/#comment-145 Stephen Colley Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:55:13 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/science/?p=1048#comment-145 No one knows more about the benefits of keeping rivers exposed than the residents of San Antonio, Texas. For residents and the millions of tourists who come to visit and walk along the famous River Walk, we came very close to burying the river under city streets. Only due to the efforts of Maury Maverick (a TRUE Maverick) and his relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt, developing the River Walk was an infrastructure improvement project that put people to work during the depression, including artisans. Otherwise, the river would have remained polluted and buried and San Antonio would have been just another urban city. We need to encourage these kind of projects once again.

]]> By: Liping Li http://blog.epa.gov/science/2012/09/around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2/#comment-144 Liping Li Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:26:10 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/science/?p=1048#comment-144 Agree. In China, more and more rivers, even lakes are buried to make land for building houses or planting crops.
This is really a problem.

]]> By: Arman.- http://blog.epa.gov/science/2012/09/around-the-water-cooler-showing-buried-streams-the-daylight-2/#comment-143 Arman.- Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:05:22 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/science/?p=1048#comment-143 Bury Me Down By The River…..
(Song by: The Bee Gees)

Once in a while,we are thirsty to watch succesfully city like Pittsburgh a city of rivers which have many benefits and greener. Thanks Lahne. Congratulations……!

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