No, really. It’s got water in it, and it’s navigable. By kayak, sure, but navigable nonetheless. I joke with my wife sometimes about them needing a TMDL for shopping carts, and about the absurdity of having one of our nation’s biggest population centers in a desert, but I just don’t like it when a government entity like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers messes something like this up. It may not be common knowledge that there’s something in the L.A. River other than the bitter tears of crushed dreams and leaked motor oil, but facts are facts.

Big hat-tip to LAist.com (also source of photo, obviously).