Creek's Are Rising

  As always, the creeks are changing.  Another chunk of the bank along Six Mile Creek was washed out in a storm, when the soil washed away, a tree using it to stay anchored came down and blocked what's left of the trail.  The reroute is working well and should as long as the creek doesn't jump the bank and flow down the existing trail.

   Downstream, Bolton Water is continuing to make a mess of the creek to add a water pipe under it to serve South Hill.  There's hope they'll finish before winter and the bank will be skiable so when the creek freezes there's a viable crossing.

   A piece of concrete below the 30' dam that has been getting battered by high water since 1903 finally got knocked out.  I can barely remember the message that was spray painted on it.

  Watkins Glen has undergone some changes since this photo was taken.  I'm not sure about the date of this pic, or how many winters those stairs lasted.

  Fall Creek reached levels not recorded since 1996, at least that's how the data looks from the USGS, but they're a sneaky bunch.  More of the diversion dam above Ithaca Falls washed away, I can barely remember the message that was spray painted on it.