Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River a major conduit of silt from urban development sites to Beaver Lake

Please click on images of the Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River on the upstream (north) side of the bridge at Eleventh Street where the water from the storm drain shown in the preceding posts enters the branch. The brief, heavy rain had stopped and the flow had decreased. And muddy water had not yet begun to flow from sources upstream, so there was a marked contrast in the silt-load of the flow from the storm drain and the flow of the main branch. Had I chosen to risk destroying my camera in the rain, I would have shown how large the muddy flow had been only a few minutes earlier.