It's amazing some of the things they do. They just spent fifty million dollars to lower the grade around the public museum that sits on the river here so that "students" from the Museum school, which is actually in the old Museum building not the newer one on the river bank, could have contact with the river, and to make it so people can do likewise. Meanwhile, back in 2013 during some historical flooding here, city employees pushed mounds of sand they accumulated in piles that came up into the park during the flooding into a creek bed that feeds into a system of natural lagoons fed by spring and river water, and over the years has slowly choked off the flow of the stream leaving sand unable to be washed back out into the river that comes up in yearly flooding, just not to the extent it did during the historical flood. One lagoon is gone basically and a center one is showing signs of filling. What a natural disaster so to speak, and that would have been a real treasure for school students to learn how eco systems operate and could have actually safely have done it whereas a river, no school is going to take on the liability of having student wondering around in a river. Which we all know why they really spent that money on that, but that's a whole different story, but that fifty million would have been more than enough to have cleaned that stream and lagoon back out.