Litter Pools

Earlier in the spring this little spit of beach near downtown Minneapolis had plenty of sand and driftwood. It's a bit of wilderness in the city. It was somewhat cleaned up for this photo.  I see folks bringing their dogs down here to splash in the water. The National Park service is working to make this stretch of the Mississippi swimmable and fishable in the future.  I wonder if that will happen in my lifetime.  I see folks fishing on this part of the river but I doubt they are eating what they catch.  If you live in Minneapolis you get your drinking water from the river.  (after they treat it of course!)

http://www.nps.gov/miss/learn/nature/waterquality.htm

With the rains we've had, the stairs down to this beach now end at the water line.  You can see that same water marker out there.

Some of the areas where you can get down to the shore are now starting to form litter pools again. Driftwood keeps all that trash captive.

There's jackets and back packs tangled up in this mess.  I took what I could reach.

I would rather see this along the river banks.