ine environment on a piece of property, with the ability to keep it around 50 degrees year round with a excellent flow and watercycling. I was just thinking how awesome it would be to have a manmade trout stream on your property.

I went to a lake in chapel hill where they stock trout and they charge 80 bucks to fish there for a day (i went free). Never want to fish overfed fat trout out of a frog water bass pond again...but I would pay upwards of 200 bucks to fish a day in a managed manmade "riverine" type system here in the piedmont.

could also be used for rafting or tubing

[Edited on August 12, 2013 at 4:43 PM. Reason : e]

8/12/2013 4:43:06 PM

the fuck

8/12/2013 4:46:49 PM

it'd be hard. and impractical.

8/12/2013 4:54:54 PM

lol

im sure theres some baller that has done it just because

8/12/2013 4:59:28 PM

Maybe if you're talking about something like this (in Charlotte), but not a natural river.

http://usnwc.org/about/

8/12/2013 5:01:51 PM

just start digging that ditch all the way to the river

8/12/2013 5:41:26 PM

right on, im thinking much bigger

8/12/2013 5:48:32 PM

8/12/2013 6:07:34 PM

find some naive BAE, CCEE, and ES students
give them a shovel
tell them it'll look good on their resume

profit

8/12/2013 6:11:31 PM

The electrical bills for running an adequate chiller system for most of the year would be expensive as hell

8/12/2013 6:18:47 PM

Ask chuck amato, he made a career selling rivers.

8/12/2013 6:30:34 PM

Ask the NOC in Charlotte how much it cost to build theirs, then figure out how much it costs to build a Datacenter class chiller plant. Theres your answer.

8/12/2013 6:41:07 PM

You could pump the water straight from an aquifer (it would prob be about 50F), but depending on how big you want the river you may or may not be allowed to pump that much water.

you could put the river through a heat exchanger that was buried deep in an aquifer, but I'm guessing you'd only be able to get the temp down to ~65F (depending on starting temp). But maybe you could get the trout to survive in that if you added some extra oxygen to the water (pumping liquid oxygen)

8/12/2013 7:05:39 PM

If it ties into any natural water source it would take damned near a miracle or a politician in your pocket to get it done.

8/12/2013 7:48:30 PM

Quote :

"Ask chuck amato, he made a career selling rivers."

8/12/2013 8:42:56 PM

Find water park in foreclosure
Buy it
Put fish in lazy river

8/12/2013 9:10:09 PM

ROFL

EMAN WINS THE FUCK OUT OF THE INTERNET

/GAME

8/12/2013 9:25:22 PM

Unless I missed something, wouldn't it be far cheaper and easier in the long run to pack you, your buddies, beer, and lots of food into a truck and head to the mountains and fish there?

My friend went on an awesome fishing trip recently west of Asheville- said 2 Mexican dudes brought a full grill in their truck and it was the best damn idea ever.

8/16/2013 1:27:57 PM