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here are a couple of pics with the river in the background:

Isn't Queensland a sister state to SC?

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Who?

I remembered once seeing an artificial beach in an urban setting, adjacent to a river in Brisbane, Australia. While looking for info on it, I stumbled across this study about urban waterfront development. Very very interesting! Columbia could learn a lot from this.

www.uws.edu.au/download.php?file_id=4983&filename16.1_FINAL_Q.Stevens2.pdf&mimetype=application/pdf

Brisbane is the only major city in Australia that is not directly on the ocean and it has to compete with all the other well placed cities of the country. So they are conscious about these things.

I'll continue my search for more specific info on the artificial beach, maybe some pictures. I remember how imporessed I was when I saw it.

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Thanks. I just moved here, and am genuinely interested in this place. It has a lot of potential but a long way to go.

The depth of the lakes would be a great place for scuba divers to train.

I think they quarry granite there, so I doubt there's an issue of contamination

I think the lake surface should be at land surface or river surface level (too look somewhat natural and to catch a breeze), but if it were to be lower, imagine what a giant slide could do down the hill...

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New topic here..

What's the future of the quarries? Do they plan to keep going? I was very surprised to find out there were quarries so close to downtown when I moved here.

How about turning them into swimmable lakes with artificial beaches and lots of palmetto trees? And the areas between the lakes and the river should of course be continued greenway.

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Does anyone know about what's being built in the block on Park between Senate and Gervais? And what was that yellow brick building with all the garages - a firehouse?