More pictures of the Arroyo

This before and after should give a pretty good idea of what the project is accomplishing. It's a good project

BEFORE

AFTER

The pictures don't line up exactly, but the island that is pictured in the first picture would have been up the river a bit in the second one, appearing on the left side of the river where it shows clear water with a light brown bottom.

The dam that appears in the second photo, called a weir, will be used to push water up into a side creek where fish will (hopefully) be able to thrive.

The Cal Poly Pomona students are also part of an effort to push the Golden Necklace project, which would link the Arroyo Seco with some existing (and proposed) trails that would run all over Southern California. The existing link would be to the bike trail that runs down the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers down to Long Beach. That would be awesome.

I have been part way down that trail but turned back and hit up a bus because of bike troubles. Someday, when I get a new bike, I will get back down there and blog the thing. It is WAY underused, and would be quite amazing if it were linked all the way into Pasadena.