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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:58 AM, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> In the seventies a buddy was a TV newsman in Quincy...
>> thought it was a neat little city at that time.. don't
>> know how it has developed since then.
>
> I visited the waterfront about 6 or 7 years ago for the opening of the
> new water processing plant. It didn't look to me like anything had
> changed much in town except now there is a new bridge over the river
> (the old one is still there for pedestrian traffic). The suburbs may
> be where all the change is, if there is any.
>
> No, I don't make a practice of hitting water plant grand openings, but
> I'd written the competition entry for the engineering firm that worked
> on that one.
>
> The plant is quite a marvel, but one of the most marvelous things was
> looking into the intake. The water being sucked out of the river is
> remarkably clear. When I was a student at St. Mary's Academy in
> Nauvoo, if we waded in the river shallows, we couldn't see our feet.
> Now, you can see all the way down the intake cylinder, which is
> roughly two stories high. Of course, it's probably not clear right now
> with the flooding. The plant is right next to the locks, and I wonder
> if it's functioning.
>
> Marie
>