5.5 miles
ford loop
73 degrees
humidity: 77% / dew point: 62
I thought it was going to be cooler this morning, but I was wrong. Hot, humid, lots of sweating — not moist, soaked. Didn’t bother me too much, and I’m not wiped out now. More progress! Felt strong at the end, like I could have run for longer.
10 Things
- rowers on the river, at least different groups with 3 different coxswains
- one of the coxswains gave out orders and then changed her mind: no, do this first — take one stroke, just one stroke
- 3 kids on bikes on the east side of the river — let’s go to your house!
- those same kids, a mile later as we all (me running, them biking) reached the overlook. One kid: It’s the Mississippi! Let’s get off our bikes and explore!
- 3 or more big groups of runners
- water gushing, 1: from a storm drain in front of a house
- water gushing, 2: at shadow falls
- water gushing, 3: the sewer pipe at 42nd
- the cool, dark shade under the trees on the way down from the ford bridge
- the street lamps were on on the St. Paul side — have people stopped stealing the copper?
a new term discovered: daylighting
In recent decades, these rivers have also rallied a growing chorus of advocates in the fields of restoration, architecture, and city planning who champion an idea once seen as extreme or even dangerous: to bring them aboveground again. This idea is known as daylighting, the exhumation of streams from underground and reintroduction of them to the surface. There is ample research-based evidence for what seems intuitively true: natural waterways—meaning, those that flow through the topography of a landscape and not through a sewer—support healthier ecosystems than those encased in concrete darkness. Daylighting brings benefits to water quality that include nutrient retention, prevention of algal blooms, and overall more supportive environments for a diversity of species. It also keeps clean water out of the sewer system, where, currently, huge volumes of it unnecessarily go through the sewage treatment process, a waste of resources that can also cause sewers to overflow.
Reaching the Light of Day/ Corinne Segal
“The water’s going to flow where the water wants to go” (Eric Sanderson).
I’ve read about the rerouting and covering over with concrete of creeks and waterways near the Mississippi River Gorge. Looked it up and found this: Daylight Phalen Creek.
The article also mentions, ghost rivers. I want to use that in my haunts poem! Found this cool art installation in Baltimore: Ghost Rivers. I didn’t realize it, but this project is featured in the article!
I’m reminded of Bridal Veil Falls, near the Franklin loop and the underground stream. Here’s an article I found and posted way back in February of 2019: Bridal Veil Falls