Friends of Little Rocky Run Fake Wetlands to the Landfill, Page 74

About 50 yards upstream from the culvert pipe shown on the preceding page, you reach the large earthen dam that forms the huge stormwater pond in the Buckley Reserve neighborhood.  See picture below.  A street, perhaps appropriately named Muddler Way, runs over the top of the dam.. The drain pipe is big and you can easily walk through it until you are standing inside of the drain tower shown at bottom right.  This is not recommended because the spillway is covered with algae and very slick.  At the end of the tunnel, and inside the drain tower, there is a hole spewing out water, shown at bottom left..

When you stand at the waterfall, you are actually under the pond.  The tunnel is maybe 100' long.  This is a very strange place and will attract adventurous chilldren. It is hard to see, but on the wall behind the waterfall, there is a hatch of some kind.  Presumably, if you open it, you could drain the entire stormwater pond in short order.  Of course you would probably drown yourself in the process, but human beings have done far stupider things than this. These dangers make me think that the entrance to the tunnel should be gated.  Photos taken 12/30/2003.

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