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In article <3np37u$fd3@unogate.unocal.com>,
Richard Ottolini <stgprao@sugarland.unocal.COM> wrote:
>In article <3nj94j$hek@rastaban.usc.edu>,
>Win Bent <whb@rastaban.usc.edu> wrote:
>>Yeah, but at least we don't have to worry about pesky old Mother Nature
>>re-routing it!  And besides, when's the last time you saw a movie with
>>a car chase in the Colorado River?  LA knows how to take care of its
>>natural resources: pave 'em over and film a movie there!
>
>The whole river is not a cement channel.  One of the TV stations did
>a documentary about the more natural parts of the river upsteam.
>It had a rural, woodsy feel to that part.


The L.A. river stretch surrounding Griffith Park does not have a paved
bottom as because the US Army Corps of Engineers (who cemented the river)
discovered that it lay too close to the water table.

Speaking of the river being rerouted, believe it or not, it was, back in
the 1800s. The source has remained the same, but instead out letting out
south by Long Beach, it diverged *west*. Ballona Creek exists because it
was formerly part of the L.A. River.

Virtually every metropolis is centered near a large body of water or
river, except for Los Angeles as it seems. But in the 1700s, the L.A. river
(then called Rio Porcincula) was a real flourishing waterway, so much that
the early Spanish settlers decided to establish their little pueblo
there. In the pre-aquaduct days, the river was the prime source of water 
for the Los Angeles area.




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