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Daylighting Salt Lake's City Creek: An Urban River Unentombed, Ron Love

Golden Gate University Law Review

This article addresses the background of this historically significant creek, its encapsulation early in the twentieth century, and a modern-day attempt to daylight the creek using legislation originally enacted as part of the Clean Water Act. The article also traces the background leading to the national movement towards the current trend of restoring rivers and streams, which began in the 1970s, and has continued to the present time. The article also looks briefly at the Brownfields Showcase Project which spurred the daylighting. It will also explore in detail the US Army Corps of Engineers' ("USACE") efforts under the ecosystem restoration …