Friends of Little Rocky Run - Virtual Tour of Watershed, Page 50, the Wetlands to I-66

As the creek continues from upstream, still marked by tape probably to mark trees and vegetation that will be removed, it comes to a nice little area full of cat tails.  This is the last "nice" area. A new stormwater pond has been built just beyond the two outlet pipes shown in the photo immediately below.  (Note: this page originally said that a second headwater stream emptied into this stormwater pond.  This was an error, and has been corrected).

The stormwater pipe on the left side of the photo to the left appears to be much older than the one on the right.  What its original purpose was is unknown to the web site author.

Just below the outlet pipes someone tossed a big red chunk of truck for others to worry about.  Likewise, someone abandoned a rider mower as well. On the other side of the creek, beyond the red chunk of truck, a builder  also dumped a concrete mixer. This junk looks fairly new, so we can't blame this on ignorance twenty years back.

This view from the far edge of the stormwater pond shown above, shows the channelized stream bed off in the distance.  This short section of stream has some of the most spectacular trash ever found anywhere in the Little Rocky Run watershed. It is assumed that the developer will remove the concrete debris.

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Photos on this page shot on 2/1/03.