“But everyone always complains there is no vision. The project “is going to be very hard to get jump-started,” said Rick Van Schoik, portfolio director of the North American Research Partnership, a nonprofit network of analysts who look at ways the United States, Mexico and Canada can collaborate. Peralta concedes that it “began as pie in the sky,” but said the proposal addresses very real issues - such as the need to find uses for the large quantities of water that run down the channel and end up being discharged into the Pacific Ocean. We thought this could be an interesting issue.” “We had this huge canal that had all these issues, that wasn’t doing much when it didn’t rain. “We thought this could roll over into Mexico,” Peralta said. The idea was to look at ways to improve the quality of life through urban design. The plan grew out of a class taught by Bliesner and Peralta at University of California San Diego, where both have been lecturers in the urban studies department. Interspersed along the channel would be trees, a parkway, and opportunities for art and vendors. Down below, they propose using algae systems to clean the water that flows down the river and eventually ends up in the Pacific Ocean. René Peralta and Jim Bliesner envision a giant energy farm along the length of the channel that would consist of solar panels across the top. Now two San Diego professors have a different dream: using the channel to produce solar energy and to treat runoff and wastewater. TIJUANA - Flood control and land development were the objectives more than four decades ago when a 10.5-mile stretch of the Tijuana River was transformed into a broad concrete channel. New dream for Tijuana River: producing electricity
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