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“St. Louis alone would be an all-sufficient theme; for who can doubt that this prosperous metropolis is destined to be one of the mighty centers of our mighty Republic?”

Curt Skouby, Director of Public Utilities for the City of St. Louis, and I had been talking about how eighty-four percent of the American West is currently in various levels of drought, with warming temperatures and a failed precipitation cycle promising worse to come. Even bigger problems, once-in-a-millennium problems, may lie ahead for both its cities and agriculture.

St. Louis was founded on the bank of a river, of course, an old-school practice. Water is life, as the Native American communities say. But the Mississippi is not just any river; it has the largest drainage basin on the continent, drawing from 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. Curt has worked for the Water Division since 1986, and in 2008 was put in charge of clean water for the city, which draws from that seemingly-inexhaustible source.

Having reached a certain age last week, I wondered suddenly what benefits and challenges St. Louis has had with its water, and what it will face in the Anthropocene. I drove to the Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant, just north of the city, and met Curt for a tour.

Muddy water swelled as it reached the hidden dam, and whitewater broke over the remains of a jetty that once went to Tower #1. The two bridges and intake towers were dwarfed by the mass of water sliding by.

Both intake towers can send water through seven-foot, brick-lined tunnels to the treatment plant, which sprawls most of a mile along the Missouri shore, off Riverview Drive. (There is a second treatment plant for St. Louis, on the Missouri River, called Howard Bend.)

Muddy water swelled as it reached the hidden dam, and whitewater broke over the remains of a jetty that once went to Tower #1. The two bridges and intake towers were dwarfed by the mass of water sliding by.

The front-loader’s wheels slipped into the river and spun wildly to get out. A massive block of limestone sitting in the liminal zone of mud, sand, and water suddenly began to float and wobble, like a rubber ducky, in the front-loader slosh. I reached for the handrail. Curt pointed out it was Styrofoam that probably got loose from a dock somewhere upstream.

Modern water systems are such a big story that it is easy to forget how brief it is. My great-grandfather was alive when St. Louis was still scooping its water from the Mississippi in barrels at the end of Walnut Street, where the Gateway Arch is now, and pulling it from wells and cisterns.

James P. Kirkwood, a Scots civil engineer who spent most of his career building waterworks and railroads in the United States, became Chief Engineer of St. Louis in 1865 and was in charge of St. Louis’ water. His plan for a treatment plant to filter river water through sand was rejected by the Board of Water Commissioners, who thought filters unnecessary and expensive. Such a plant would have made St. Louis among the most advanced cities on the planet for public health. When his advice was ignored, twice, Kirkwood moved on (and was replaced by Walt Whitman’s younger brother). He built a similar system for Poughkeepsie, New York, instead.

The plan, which he did not invent, was simple, yet so effective it still underlies most water treatment. Water would be pumped into basins, where heavy particulates would drop out of the water column. The top layer of water would be drained, leaving sediment that could be washed from the basins back into the river. The water would then be filtered through a deep layer of sand on top of gravel on top of rocks. No one realized it then, but this process formed a bacterial mat on the sand that helped kill harmful microbes. We might not accept the resulting water as potable by our standards, but it was a huge step.

A few years later, in 1869, a new board commissioned Kirkwood to travel abroad and write a report on The Filtration of River Waters, for the Supply of Cities, as Practiced in Europe. In it he explains that London’s cholera epidemic of 1866 was caused by sewer runoff from villages in the Thames and Lea valleys, a similar danger for St. Louis as population grew. Before the concept of germ theory, he claims that sand filters are important to filter out “the many organisms, vegetable or animal, which in river waters prevail more or less during certain of the summer months.”

St. Louis, which relied solely throughout the nineteenth century on rudimentary reservoirs and “settling basins,” instead of filtering plants, had several epidemics from fecal-contaminated water, including a cholera outbreak in 1848-49 that killed almost 10 percent of the city.

By the time of a report in 1885, titled The Sanitary Condition of St. Louis, with Special Reference to Asiatic Cholera, the growing city had had four disastrous outbreaks, but at least infection was understood.

St. Louis, which relied solely throughout the nineteenth century on rudimentary reservoirs and “settling basins,” instead of filtering plants, had several epidemics from fecal-contaminated water, including a cholera outbreak in 1848-49 that killed almost 10 percent of the city.

Curt Skouby said, “They were able to start water treatment for the World’s Fair, could have the wherewithal to raise rates and start treatment, because they didn’t want to be embarrassed by having muddy water coming out of the fountains when the world [came] to St. Louis. They didn’t do it because of health reasons; they did it because they didn’t want to get embarrassed. I mean, it’s just kind of the nature of things, and sometimes the right things are done maybe for the wrong reason, but you get to where you need to be.”

In 1865, the same year Kirkwood first suggested a water treatment plant in St. Louis, Chicago planners decided to expand a rudimentary canal that would flush the city’s waste westward, instead, into the Des Plaines River, which led to the Illinois River and then the Mississippi. In 1892 work was finally begun. It was a massive project that gave a generation of engineers the experience to dig the Panama Canal.

City officials in St. Louis were concerned. Chicago officials, displaying a very American selfishness, said not to worry about it; their filth would be diluted by the time it reached St. Louis. St. Louis petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for an injunction to prevent the canal from opening, but Chicago learned of it and raced to finish. In 1900 the Chicago River was reversed.

“And it is worthy of mention here that the old inhabitants of our city are so far from being averse to this admixture of sedimentary matter, that they almost regret that the new works now in construction will furnish them settled or clear water,” says L.U. Reavis in St. Louis: The Future Great City of the World, in a chapter titled, “Water as an Important Auxiliary to the Growth of a Great City, and the Advantage possessed by St. Louis for an Inexhaustible Supply.”

Twain says, of St. Louis water specifically, in Life on the Mississippi (1883), “It comes out of the turbulent, bank-caving Missouri, and every tumblerful of it holds nearly an acre of land in solution. I got this fact from the bishop of the diocese. If you will let your glass stand half an hour, you can separate the land from the water as easy as Genesis. . . . ”

Reavis says St. Louis water was praised by a “daguerrean artist, whose business demands the purest water,” and that sailors swore it kept better and tasted better than any other water. He claims to have bottled water from the Mississippi at Chain of Rocks and drunk it 17 years later. He declared it excellent. (Curt told me St. Louis water is “naturally kind of hard, which helps with the stability of it,” but trapped in a bottle for 17 years “the disease-causing organism starved to death for lack of a host. Not going to go bad in that respect.”)

Twain says, of St. Louis water specifically, in Life on the Mississippi (1883), “It comes out of the turbulent, bank-caving Missouri, and every tumblerful of it holds nearly an acre of land in solution. I got this fact from the bishop of the diocese. If you will let your glass stand half an hour, you can separate the land from the water as easy as Genesis. . . . But the natives do not take them separately, but together, as nature mixed them. When they find an inch of mud in the bottom of a glass, they stir it up, and then take the draught as they would gruel. It is difficult for a stranger to get used to this batter, but once used to it he will prefer it to water.”

The amount of lime, the preferred treatment material, needed for a city the size of St. Louis was deemed prohibitive, but a Washington University graduate named John Wixford discovered a method using slaked lime that was more efficient.

The floc, as it is called—flakes or clumps—sank to the bottom, making “purer, clearer water than St. Louis residents had ever seen.” The amount of lime, the preferred treatment material, needed for a city the size of St. Louis was deemed prohibitive, but a Washington University graduate named John Wixford discovered a method using slaked lime that was more efficient.

A more rapid filtration than the slow-sand method was added to treatment in the next years, and, “By 1915,” as the article points out, “the city of St. Louis had done much more than build the nation’s largest state-of-the-art filtration facility. It had created [at Chain of Rocks] what is considered the first modern water purification plant in the United States, a facility incorporating all of the major elements of treatment technology that would be used by other municipalities around the country,” including “coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and chlorination. Decades later, the process had been improved but followed essentially the same sequence. . . . ”

There are other technologies to disinfect water now, from the backpacker’s sippy-straw to pressurized, reverse-osmosis systems. What determines the use of this type of facility for St. Louis is scale. No other method could produce so much clean water so quickly, but it takes time, process, planning, science, technology, and chemicals.

After water comes in at the intake tower, it goes to a wet well, then to a primary pump station—a large brick building, several stories high, with watertight doors in case of river flood. In the old days, its pumps were steam engines that rose 30 feet or more to the ceiling and had their own crews. In the historical literature, two steam engines in the St. Louis waterworks were said to be the second or third-largest in the world. They had 36-ton flywheels, and one had an 85-inch piston with a 10-foot stroke. These days the pumps are much smaller, centrifugal, and electric. Twenty-seven pumps of various sizes are used in combination as needed.

The pumps lift water into four open-air “pre-sed” (sedimentation) basins that capture sand, silt, and other heavy particles. The water is collected over a weir and flows through a channel into three softening basins that look like mixing bowls the size of your house.

In both methods, water flows down through sand on a gravel bed. In slow-sand filters, however, operators had to skim the sand of impurities and replace it often as it clogged with mud. In the rapid-sand method, the flow of water is reversed every three days or so to flush out floc and particles. In this way, the “media”—sand, gravel, rocks—can last 10 to 20 years, at which point it has become a soft concrete.

“We pump twice as much at night and on weekends as during normal hours of the work week,” Curt said. “Electrical rates are cheaper at night and in off hours, and the electrical company doesn’t have to build the infrastructure to meet instantaneous demands of a system.”

There is a preoccupation, in old texts about waterworks, with how many gallons, per capita, a system could deliver, per day, to its city, whether it was ancient Rome, Victorian London, or Quincy, Illinois. (St. Louis produces, on average, 355 gallons per person—a misleading figure, because industrial use is factored in.)

Curt [Skouby, Director of Public Utilities for the City of St. Louis] laughed when I reminded him that a pamphlet from the Water Division’s 1956 Diamond Jubilee says it cost a penny to deliver 50 gallons that year. But the cost now is just 11.8 cents per 50 gallons, only 1.8 percent over inflation from 65 years ago.

Curt and I discussed potential problems for St. Louis’ water future. He acknowledged the danger of another New Madrid earthquake but believes “that’s on a several-hundred year cycle, and probably won’t happen in our lifetime.” Other natural forces, such as freezing conditions that create ice dams, can make supply somewhat unpredictable.

Curt Skouby said, “St. Louis could easily support [the water needs of] the population of any of these cities, or any probably two of these cities,” struggling with water scarcity. I was startled. “You could supply water to a couple of LAs?” I said.

In fact, he said, “St. Louis could easily support [the water needs of] the population of any of these cities, or any probably two of these cities,” struggling with water scarcity.

But water is ultimately more important than anything but air. One wonders, in the Anthropocene, as temperatures rise, farming zones move north, and potable water becomes scarcer, what more St. Louis and other big-river cities might become.

In the mid-1800s, steamboats owned the river. Anything and anyone coming or going from St. Louis crossed the river by steamboat. Rail cargo was offloaded, ferried across the river, and reloaded onto another train. The wide and swift Mississippi River posed unprecedented challenges to any would-be bridge builders, and that’s if they could overcome the political and economic opposition from the steamboat business. But James Buchanan Eads had a learned distrust of riverboats and deep determination—a necessary combination to construct the unbuildable bridge.

James B. Eads was a born frontiersman. On the way to St. Louis with his mother and sisters, their steamboat caught fire near the wharf. The family escaped with their lives, but the boat sank with their livelihoods. To help his family rebuild, he joined the crew of the steamboat Knickerbocker.

Eads’ pioneering design of a diving bell made from a wooden barrel had him walking on the bottom of the river recovering sunken treasures for well-paying contractors. The 22-year-old engineer (given the honorary title of Captain) experienced firsthand the behavior of the riverbed: the ground constantly changing as both silt and sand flow like water. James Eads’ understanding of the Mississippi, from its surface to its depths, was profound. Although he had never built a bridge, his thorough knowledge of the river endowed him with great trust, and he won the bid to build the first bridge connecting Illinois and Missouri where they meet in St. Louis.

The center arch of the bridge spans over five hundred feet to keep from inhibiting freight traffic, and the whole bridge clears a mile in length. This incredible distance meant that a suspension bridge was off the table, and the piers (vertical support beams) would stand in the river itself. Eads’ familiarity with the riverbed informed him of the fact that just setting the piers in the silt would not hold. They would have to dig down through 80 feet of sand and mud under 20 feet of water.

The Eads Bridge was a first in its use of pneumatic caissons to excavate and construct bedrock supports. A caisson functions similarly to a diving bell: when a large metal container with an open bottom is pushed straight down into the water, an air pocket forms. Imagine forcing a cup, open end down, into a bathtub or swimming pool. As the caisson descends, pressure from the weight of the water grows around it. If the surrounding water pressure exceeds the inside air pressure, the water will force the air out of the caisson. The solution is to continually pump air into the caisson, increasing air pressure as it dives, maintaining a balance. The building of the Eads Bridge required one of the largest caissons in history.

The bridge opened on July 4th, 1874. The city of St. Louis crossed the Mississippi River, and the Eads Bridge connected the city to the eastern half of the nation. Rail and road traffic had direct access to St. Louis.

Nearly a century later in 1964, the National Park Service bestowed the Eads Bridge its highest designation, a National Historic Landmark. In 1971 it was designated a City Landmark and a National Historic Engineering Landmark. On June 25th, 1989, James B. Eads was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. You can find his star at 6635 Delmar Blvd.

Eads stated that his bridge would remain in use as long as people saw a use for it. For a time, it was abandoned. Freight trains outgrew the bridge in 1974, and in 1991, road traffic stopped too. The bridge found new purpose with passenger trains when the St. Louis Metrolink put the railway to use in 1994. Road traffic resumed in 2003 when a brand new four-lane highway opened across the Eads Bridge. “Drive on,” Eads would say, “Fortune favors the brave.”

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Bike parks and pump tracks are a fun and unique way to get kids to play and exercise outside! They’re also a great place to instill a love of riding at a very young age. Riders of all ages love exploring the endless adventures bike parks offer, whether on their balance bike or pedal bike.

This map is not complete without your help! Please submit any kid-friendly bike parks or pump tracks in your area to [email protected] and we’ll add them to the list!

Skateparks can also be a good place for bike riding, but while they work great for balance bikes (with the exception of the bowls), they don’t work well for a traditional, non-BMX bike. As a result, we’ve only listed indoor and outdoor bike parks and pump tracks (although bike parks often include a skateboarding park as well). Scooters are also fun at skateparks and pumptracks.

If you need more proof about why bike parks and pump tracks are so awesome for kids, check out our 2-year-old toddler rocking bike parks across America in the video below!

Info: Asphalt Velosolutions pump track; first of its kind at a school in the United States. Newly added dirt track with wooden features, suitable for balance bikers to skilled riders.

Info: Four jump lines, ranging from beginner to expert, a kid’s pump track, a skill zone, two flow trails, a perimeter trail that connects to those different features

Info: Large, outdoor pumptrack connected to other trails. There is currently no parking lot to access directly to the pumptrack. The track is accessed by riding the other singletrack trails which can be tricky for very young riders but okay for more experienced kid riders.

Info: The 7N Bike Park has beginner loops, a pump track, flow track, obstacle track, free-ride track, bridges, ramps, a teeter-totter, and lots of jumps. Entry fee charged and season passes available.

Info: Brand new pumptrack with a new skills park about to be finished! A note from one of our readers: “The road it’s on is closed to vehicle traffic & dedicated for cyclists and runners on Saturdays until 3:30, so anyone trying to get there on a Saturday morning would need to park at the nearby Nankin Mills Recreation Area and bike over (~1 mile).”

Info: The Lakeside Bike Park is open dawn to dusk and is free to the public. Mountain bike rentals are available on site! There are 3 mountain bike tracks, a pump track, skills loop, and tot track!

Info: Learn to pump rollers at this rolling curving exciting pump track right off the parking lot at Phils trailhead. Pumping rollers and railing berms is a valuable skill to learn for everyday riding.

Info: Pump track suitable for beginners to experts. Dirt jumps are closed gaps, intermediate in skill level, starts with 3 into a 180 berm with a step-up into a nice size tabletop to finish.

Info: Baker Creek Preserve features 7.3 miles of natural surface trails for all levels of riders. Near the parking lot are a kids-only beginner loop and small asphalt pumptrack.

Info: 5 miles of single track trails in the woods along White Rock Creek. It also has dirt jumps that progress from beginner to expert, as well as a pump track

Info: The Spoke offers a variety of bike park experiences, each tuned to a particular ability level: from beginner to intermediate to maestro. Its crown jewel is its Velosolutions pump track.

Info: Larger start with a big, banked S turn to a couple of table-top jumps. A medium start that skips the table tops and goes into a couple smaller jumps and an oval full of rollers. And a mini-multi-track pump track that can be an oval, a figure-8, or take a banked detour then leads back into the rollers.

Info: Two pump tracks – one for beginner level, one for intermediate and advanced. It’s a low-risk high-enjoyment facility for riders of all ages and abilities. The park is open to the public during standard park hours for Riverdale City. To get there, drive past the police station to the end of the road, then turn right into the parking lot.

Info: Outdoor dirt pump track. Jay’s Pump Track at Battle Point Park was built by volunteers and named in memory of Jay Abbott, the Gear Grinders first middle school mountain bike coach.