how to mess up a creek
I remember a few summers ago riding my bike across the 8th Street bridge in Carp...it was an enchanted place..the creek meandered peacefully below as I stopped mid-bridge to reflect..why, I coulda been Huck Finn wondering where the water could take me..what is a creek but a haven from society and a source for adventure..the flowing water was freedom..the plants were happy together..natives and non natives danced in the wind..the water teemed with life..birds sang, polywogs woggled, even the arundo was mighty profundo! The bridge was a sturdy wooden structure that fit perfectly in this place and would have lasted another 100 years...it was a respite from city ways..I crossed over to Arbol Verde and the cool old houses that bordered the creek....then something happened..the City of Carpinteria and the Co
unty Ag commission plotted to destroy the creek and bridge to make things safer and remove non natives..and destroy they did..they took out nearly everything that was there..even forced a homeowner to flee it looks like, there's a "for sale" sign....they turned a pristine area into a horrible, over-engineered debacle
of the highest magnitude...and now we are stuck with a giant ugly brown steel bridge that is already rusting and a creek that has had its banks stripped of vegetation...what happened here is a crime of incompetence...the previous Carp City Council and Public Works Director pushed this and the city went along with it....it's too late to do anything now as it's all water under the bridge, but we must prevent the same thing from happening in the future...
en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head or dey fren’s en makes ‘em ashamed."
I remember a few summers ago riding my bike across the 8th Street bridge in Carp...it was an enchanted place..the creek meandered peacefully below as I stopped mid-bridge to reflect..why, I coulda been Huck Finn wondering where the water could take me..what is a creek but a haven from society and a source for adventure..the flowing water was freedom..the plants were happy together..natives and non natives danced in the wind..the water teemed with life..birds sang, polywogs woggled, even the arundo was mighty profundo! The bridge was a sturdy wooden structure that fit perfectly in this place and would have lasted another 100 years...it was a respite from city ways..I crossed over to Arbol Verde and the cool old houses that bordered the creek....then something happened..the City of Carpinteria and the Co
unty Ag commission plotted to destroy the creek and bridge to make things safer and remove non natives..and destroy they did..they took out nearly everything that was there..even forced a homeowner to flee it looks like, there's a "for sale" sign....they turned a pristine area into a horrible, over-engineered debacle 
of the highest magnitude...and now we are stuck with a giant ugly brown steel bridge that is already rusting and a creek that has had its banks stripped of vegetation...what happened here is a crime of incompetence...the previous Carp City Council and Public Works Director pushed this and the city went along with it....it's too late to do anything now as it's all water under the bridge, but we must prevent the same thing from happening in the future...en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head or dey fren’s en makes ‘em ashamed."
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