Originally Posted by Nikki_Licks

They are pushing it so they can be ready for some marathon that is scheduled to be held in Tempe and the lake is part of the event.

You wouldn't catch me even putting my feet in that thing. Allot of people don't know, but when the flooding season would come, all the medical waste that was dumped on the Indian reservation would come through there and it always required special clean up to remove syringes and other waste.

I am sure over the 15 years it flooded that stuff has leached into the soil pretty good. Not only that, but people have come down with some sort of skin irritation from being in it.

This new section will now outlast the old ones that are still in place. I think it would have been better to build another type of dam, hell....even concrete would last for ever, so to speak.