Anybody want to walk the Town Branch with me today and count how many of the white chunks of concrete have hung up on downstream brushpiles and logs?

Please click on images to view flow more than a half-hour after the heavy rain ended in Fayetteville on Wednesday evening, August 5, 2009, from a large detention pond on the western portion of the HIll Place student-apartment complex into the Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River, the river dammed to create Beaver Lake, the main water supply for most of Northwest Arkansas. An hour earlier, the stream was in flash-flood mode and about 3-feet higher, washing the bottom of the big concrete pipe. And the flow from the detention pond was obviously a lot greater! For preflood photos, please scroll down to posts on this blog from three days ago with views of the concrete hauled and scattered there from rebuilt portions of the curb and gutter on the property. Hard to imagine that someone considers this an appropriate way to deal with stormwater runoff.