Not much of a river to really see there really.
The Salt River is now a dry river bed in that area, getting mined for sand and gravel and exploited for commercial real estate development and acres of The Larry Miller Auto Empire and a sprawling shopping mall.
In the image shown at the right >
you can see a "PREHISTORIC" map of The Salt River and its life-giving canals . . in speaking with the artist setting up those blue waves, she said "You know there are canals all under here". Yes was the reply, so what happened to all that water?
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Readers of this blog might like to note that there is a close-by WATER RECLAMATION PLANT . . . and about 2 weeks ago the Mesa City Council heard a presentation for some 5-Year Capital Improvement Project they were planning to expand pipelines for more suburban sprawl... There's a drought here in Arizona for more than ten years and The Drought Emergency is not going to go away anytime soon. Here's an old song, originally in 1936, with the lyrics about water pollution reworked by Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson
Chill out for about 5 minutes and listen
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Here's what the Mesa Arts Center came up to promote this IMMERSIVE EVENT
