Dam at Walnut

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cbeagler
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2011/11/22 17:59:59 (permalink)

Dam at Walnut

OK, I know I have been gone a few weeks. I was just down at WC Access and there is a dam almost all the way across the creek just north of of the marina. When did THAT go in? My guess is that they are trying to lessen the amount of debris from the lake over the winter?  I wonder how long it will hold up to the spring glaciers that we get every year? 
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    Claypool313
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/22 19:09:19 (permalink)
    That's news to me too.  But I haven't had a reason to go down there since late Sept.
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/22 19:50:40 (permalink)
    its to keep the steelhead in the creek longer so they can find a good home

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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/22 20:18:41 (permalink)
    I saw it too. The spillway was letting out a decent flow.

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    cbeagler
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/23 06:23:28 (permalink)
    Maybe dam is not the best word. It is made of gravel not cement. Obviously not permanent.




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    PONDBEARSHWILLY
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/23 07:02:20 (permalink)
    It is there to control the numbers of burpits that will make their annual run this winter.They say burpits don't like dams.I caught waaaay too many of them last year.Dam burpits.
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/23 07:32:15 (permalink)
    Pics?
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/23 09:31:42 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: PONDBEARSHWILLY

    It is there to control the numbers of burpits that will make their annual run this winter.They say burpits don't like dams.I caught waaaay too many of them last year.Dam burpits.

     
     Makes sense to me.
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/23 09:59:56 (permalink)
    They finally took kmp's advice and put gravel in the stream for the steelhead to spawn.
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/23 10:26:09 (permalink)
    Never saw a dam, heard a few MF's now and then but don't remember a dam...
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    RE: Dam at Walnut 2011/11/23 10:58:24 (permalink)
    The landowners upstream built it, to stop the run of fish, AND anglers.

    If you build it, the won't come.

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