Laserfiche WebLink
<br />lb <br /> <br /> <br />A picture taken from the same location at Midway. In the distance there is a <br />levee that causes the river to turn sharply to the left. This levee is the barrier <br />separates the current river channel, and the former channel. The old river <br />chanm31 is now a series of marshes and ponds. There was a lot of gravel mining <br />in the old channel. The gravel mine created f ponds and gravel bars. The only <br />thing I~~ft of the old river channel is a series of rock baskets located on the edge <br />of a fie,ld adjacent to the Park's residence. The old channel meets up with the <br />current channel at Phil's Auto. <br /> <br />Between the levee and where this picture was taken was six acres lost to the <br />river in the 1993 flood. The 1993 flood might have been on its way to recapturing <br />the 19 '12 river channel when it ran out of steam. Unfortunately the flood took with <br />it several very large (ten feet in circumference) cottonwood trees. <br /> <br />Cotton Wood trees start growing after a flood. They were one of the key <br />components to decreasing the width depth ratio found after the 1912 flood. TIley <br />also gave the banks structure. Holding the river to certain boundaries. It takes a <br />flood like the flood of 1993, and a series of bad events to rip large cottonwood <br />trees out of the ground. <br /> <br />One- of the good things found in this section are the number of juvenile <br />cottonwoods trees found by the thousands all along this section. A sign that <br />stability is growing. .. ~. <br />