Seems all of the water runs off the neighborhood streets and right down on the the bike path and rolls down until it can get off and head to the streams and what not.
One problem started developing a while ago. It started to undercut and wash away the side of the path.
Once the 'shoulder' was gone, the path actually started to disappear.
First a pile of gravel and dirt was dumped there. Next rain it was gone and the whole was bigger.
Then they put big rocks and more dirt. Ooops rain washed them away too.
Then they put pressure treated 4x4 with a drain cut out and everything. Looked wicked fancy. rain destroyed it.
More stuff. More attempts to fix.
Meanwhile the bike path just kept getting eaten away, bit by bit, crumbling asphalt into the hole.
yesterday morning was great. It was dumping buckets and the rain run off was flowing.
So i stopped. I was already soaking wet. Pulled out the waterproof camera and shot a few videos. This is the best:
Also a few stills.
Last night on the way home there were two big water filled plastic jersey barriers making a big V on either side of the sink hole.
This morning on the way in, Steve Church was talking to a tractor operator and I followed a dump truck that had just deposited a load, up the rest of the path.
The problem is pretty obvious to me. But then I grew up playing in streams and rivers alone, curiously seeing what happens when you divert or channel the water. It will go where it goes. We'll see if my solution ever happens.
I'm curious what they have accomplished today.
heddwch
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