Ancient River Found Flowing Beneath Toronto

Reuters/Yahoo ^ | 9-19-2003

[LiteKeeper]

has been for at least a million years

How do they know it has been there a million years?

[ExpatCanuck]

How do they know it has been there a million years?

Based on the rate of flow I would guess. Presuming that Georgian Bay is the source and the rate of flow is 1 cm / year, the math is relatively straight forward.

[muir_redwoods]

How soon before ELF proves that we have already polluted it and the Canadian government sues us in the World Court for the cost of cleaning it up?

[RudeJude]

bump

[null and void]

You, sir, are a heel!

[glock rocks]

OMG!! You're from Bowling Green Kentucky? Woooo! the birthplace of my darlin!!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Nice car - you obviously prefer German guns and American cars. Since I drive an M3 and own a S & W .357 I guess I am your opposite!

BTW, check out

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985773/posts

All is not well in BG these days!

[glock rocks]

a few austrian guns (via Smyrna GA) a few German guns (SIG) and a few American guns (Ruger, RRA, Remington, Colt, etc.) ... I believe in diversity, if properly done.

yah, heard bout the stink at WKU. just damn. my favorite place in BG (in the early 90's) was Container World. I sincerely hope it's still there.

[surely_you_jest]

Am I the only one thinking "Ghostbusters" and the subterranean river of pink slime?

[glock rocks]

we have an interesting counterpart to the story here in Salt Lake City...

City Creek runs down the hills north of the city, and by bald headed certainty, nobody but nobody is gonna mess with City Creek, cause the enviros will castrate anybody that so much as walks a dawg up the highway beside it... well, the creek runs above ground to North Temple street, then disappears into an underground culvert, never to be seen again until it drains into the Great Salt Lake... an inland saturated saline sea in which nothing but one species of crustacian and a lot of primary processed sewage lives.

amazing.

so we have underground rivers here in Utah, but I guess the dynamics are, um, somewhat different.

[Davea]

The Boat of Charon (Chirac?)

The damned being driven off the boat into hell.

[Willie Green]

Some trivia you: Contrary to common assumptions, the city of Pittsburgh doesn't get its water from any of its famous Three Rivers. Instead, they tap into a similar underground aquifer, often called "The Fourth River", which happens to pass directly under "The Point" and the other three surface rivers. The fountain at Point State Park taps directly into this aquifer, as do many of the office buildings and the convention center.

[martin_fierro]

What you say!

[Willie Green]

You didn't know that?
Here's a quick link that tells a little about it being used for the waterfall at Heinz Hall Plaza.
I'm sure there must be other info on the Web as well.

[martin_fierro]

I had absolutely no dinglydangdoodle idea.

But then, ign'ern'ce is bliss, 'n'at.

[Willie Green]

I had absolutely no dinglydangdoodle idea.

Like I said, it's not common knowledge, and I'm sure many of the surrounding smaller communities may get their water out of the other rivers.

It's possible that I knew about it since I grew up in a community near the old Aspinwall Water Filtration Plant (now Waterworks Mall), which used to supply the city. I'm not 100% certain that tapped the aquifer, though.

But I can also remember a bit about it from going downtown with my Dad when I was a kid. We'd drive down Rt 28, and just as we passed the Heinz Plant coming in to the North Side, there was a funky intersection near the old Fort Wayne Cigar Store where the street split at a sharp angle. Anyway, right on that pointy intersection there was a big set of steps leading down, underground -- and there was a big cast-iron railing around it, but it was fenced off so nobody could use the steps. I remember asking my Dad what that was for, and he said they built that back in the early 1900~20s (or something like that) when they were first trying to put in a subway. But construction stopped and the project flopped because they kept running into that dang "underground river". LOL!

[Mayhem]

I love the fact that when they say "red" it's a two sylable word. (Rayid)

[glock rocks]

my first landing in Nashville, I saw a young southren mama chasing her boy down the concourse hollering at him... Ker-eeh-ya-us, Ker-eeh-ya-us!!! aha. the kid's name was Chris.

yah? took a couple trips to NY and Boston to figure it all out.
See, in the northeast, they chop off syllables. (j'eet? naw. lesgweet.)

In the south they incorporate those spare syllables to keep the universal law of conservation of syllables consistent.

[Revelation 911]

similar story

this ones about the flooding and loss of a western NY salt mine - which is about 60 miles south of Toronto -

[null and void]

Am I the only one thinking "Ghostbusters" and the subterranean river of pink slime?

Yes you are, you FReak...

;^P