On Friday evening, the Corps said it would open the spillway once river flows reach 1.5 million cubic feet per second.
Like others, she hopes officials will open other sections of the river to the public.
In addition to purchasing the land, the trust said the money would also be used to create paths, open up views of the river and produce interpretation material, as well as fund ongoing maintenance.
The river has been open to the public as a navigable waterway for decades, though it was encased by private land owned by timber companies and covered by hunting club leases and posted against trespassing.
For the past two years, another portion of the Los Angeles River has been open to kayakers for short periods in the summer, but access was strictly limited under permits from the Army Corps of Engineers.
It is hoped the new centre, on the Berkshire side of the River Thames, will open by 2014.
At the time the river was virtually an open sewer, with the Houses of Parliament once having to be abandoned because MPs were "overpowered by the smell, " according to the official Diamond Jubilee Pageant website .
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It was grilled in a ketsi, a red clay dish, over an open fire, weighted down by heavy river stones.
Highway 17 south to Sault Ste Marie will not be open for two days while Highway 17 north to White River will remain closed for at least a week.
On the trout rich River Gacka, travellers can take out an open canoe and join the swans and herons for a far more relaxing experience, idling along the still, reed-shrouded waters.
Drink in all that ole San Anton' has to offer: You're staying just half a block from the famed River Walk, and the public park is open 365 days a year.
Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.
Louisiana state and local officials braced for the possibility of major flooding in the Atchafalaya River Basin if, or when, federal authorities open the spillway north of Baton Rouge.
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Officials said the spillway gates are likely to be open for weeks, and it will be weeks before the river falls below flood stage, allowing those who have evacuated to return safely.
He called Charles River Ventures partner Jonathan Guerster, a former colleague at Open Market.
Spillway gates are likely to be open for weeks, meaning it will be some time before the river falls below flood stage, allowing evacuees to return.
To be fair, the groups of six tents do open up directly to nature, with a view of the Blackfoot river, the pine forest or the banks of Elk Creek.
In total, the projects include 1, 100 miles of new trails, 1, 200 miles of additional river corridors and 35, 000 acres of expanded park land and open spaces.
Some of the spillway's gates will likely be open for weeks, and it'll be at least that long before the river falls safely below flood stage and those who have evacuated can safely return, said Col.
The exhibit is to open next year at the museum in the Long Island City neighborhood, across the East River from midtown Manhattan.
Her plan to open a new fine arts gallery downtown this weekend were on hold "until we know what the river is going to do, " she said.
Mr. Issa said he decided to open up a Manhattan outlet because of interest from landlords and brokers constantly trying to lure them over the river.
On Cambridge Street, a main drag in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, the sunny day had the feel of a Sunday morning with few stores open.
Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).
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