That we have to hire people and machinery to mow the canal is another good reason to support drainage swales and basins, stormwater catchment ponds, permeable pavements, and other measures to stop the rapid runoff of rainwater into our waterways. The runoff carries lawn fertilizer, pesticides, animal poop…
I think there is a lot more we could do to reduce the run off rate, starting with the excess of paved parking lots and excessively wide streets the city insists we need to provide “free” parking to motorists.
There’s something amusing and annoying all at once in the very idea behind the title quotation.
What is that machine called?
OK, which job would be cooler? Driving that thing, or the grasshopper thing that smashes the Rideau River ice in March?