Letter: Stratosphere Tower would be a great valleywide mister

Sunday, Feb. 9, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

Far out? Perhaps. But possible and very much needed.

Engineers simply need to run a water main up through the center and right out the top of the Big SHot, hook it up to a high-speed rotating sprinkler and use high-powered air blasts to create a valleywide hydro-mist which gently washes the carbon monoxide, dust particles and Bob Stupak into the concrete pavement below.

Best of all, those feds can stop broadcasting all that jazz about our polluted air being second nationally only to L.A. And they'll have to get off our backs about their recent nonsensical, time-consuming and costly auto-pollution testing threats which will only make the annual registration of the thousands (or is it now millions?) of cars a bigger headache than it already is.

Yes, converting the Stratosphere Tower into the Vegas Valley's 1,000-foot-high hydro-mister would solve so many problems -- and we'll all breathe easier.

As we Chicagoans already know, it's the rain, man, it's the rain that keeps the air fresh and clean.

Kate Davis