Dam It!
On the way home from school today, I took the kids to see the World's Largest Inflatable Dam.
Yes. You heard me right.
Pictures below:
The World's Largest Inflatable Dam is located in Fremont, CA's Alameda Creek. Built in 1972, this rubber inflatable dam is a little-known landmark for most Fremontians. They're removing it next year so if you haven't seen it and -- for the same strange reason that possessed me to visit it today -- feel like seeing it, you'd better hurry up.
Something about stupid spawing trout or something.
I didn't actually know that they were planning on removing this dam before I brought the kids over to see it, but now that I've read about it a little, I'm sort of disappointed. I don't always feel this way when it comes to the man-made versus the natural, but this time around I kind of feel bad for the dam. Afterall, steelhead trout occur in many different parts of California - and indeed all over North America - but an inflatable dam this size can only be found in one place on the whole planet.
Oh well.
2 comments:
This is a very small dam compared to the real world's largest inflatable dam on the Susquehanna River near Sunbury PA. They should remove that one as well.
well, la dee da, Don Williams! Take Susquehanna River near Sunbury PA and "bury" it where the "Sun" don't "PA"!
:)
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