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Article: Conservancy has big plans for San Diego's overlooked river.
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- California Planning & Development Report
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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It's easy to overlook the San Diego River, especially as it reaches the final stretch of its 52-mile journey from the inland mountains to San Diego's Mission Bay. The river is not a focal point of Mission Valley, as it winds past the parking lots of hotels, shopping centers and Qualcomm Stadium. Much of its water has been diverted into aquifers farther upstream. Its water quality is considered impaired under federal pollution standards. Homeless encampments are found at the river's estuary near the bay.
But as dammed, narrowed and channeled as the river is in places, it also provides a home to many endangered or threatened species, and a sanctuary from urban ...