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Little Elk Creek GPS Locations 1 to 11 - Part 2

There was very little anthropogenic debris in this stretch of Little Elk Creek and the adjacent riparian zone.  The team crossed a drainage ditch entering the creek from the north, which had a low flow of heavily iron-stained water.  The ditch came from the Triumph Industrial Park, but the field team could not track the ditch back to its source.  Further upstream, the team observed a rock wall on the right bank (all references to right and left bank are based on looking downstream).  The wall is constructed out of quarried rock stacked 1.2 to 1.5 m (4 to 5 feet) high (photo).  There is a concrete thrust block on the downstream end, which had a dirt-filled pipe sticking out toward the creek.  Several of the quarry rocks on the upstream side are displaced and falling into the creek.  This rock wall could be replaced with bioengineered bank protection but it represents a small fraction of the reach of Little Elk Creek as observed from this location.

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