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When freeloading off my daughter in Sandy between government assignments, I walk and run along the Jordan River Parkway for exercise, and I'm shocked that the river is actually very polluted, apparently with raw or only partially treated sewage entering the river system near Riverton.
I once lived along the Khyber River Canal in Peshawar, Pakistan, and later near the N'Djili River in Kinshasa, Congo. Whenever I smell the stench or see the opaque grey water and the blue-green algae blooms while walking along the Jordan River, it brings me back to those times.
How can Salt lake Valley dwellers tolerate a problem like this? This is a Third World problem in what should be a First World place.
Michael Tweedy
Yakima, Wash.
