KRIS photo sub-basin series: Freshwater_Creek-Ryan_Slough_Floods__Freshwater_Creek_Flooding

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Photos on this page are from sub-basin Freshwater Creek-Ryan Slough and series Floods: Freshwater Creek Flooding 1997.

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Freshwater Creek threatens a stream side home during high flows on January 1, 1997. Photo by Freshwater resident.

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Large sediment deposit in Freshwater Slough, an arm of Humboldt Bay taken in spring 1997 after the January storm event. Photo from Freshwater resident.

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Freshwater Creek over topped its banks and spilled into the yard of stream side residents during high flows on January 1, 1997. Photo by Freshwater residents.

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This photograph shows Freshwater Creek running very turbid during high flows in January 1997 just below the convergence of McCready Gulch. Photo by Freshwater resident.

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Large sediment deposit in Freshwater Slough, an arm of Humboldt Bay taken in spring 1997 after the January storm event. Photo from Freshwater resident.

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Freshwater Creek during high flows on January 1, 1997 over topping its banks and flooding a roadway at Howard Heights. Photo by Freshwater resident.

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This photo shows Freshwater Creek over-topping its banks and spilling out onto agricultural land at Three Corners on January 1, 1997. Photo by Freshwater resident.

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Flood waters from Freshwater Creek spill on to Old Arcata Road at Three Corners posing a flood risk to the stream side home. Photo by Pat Higgins.

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High turbid water flowing from the culvert is draining an area that was recently logged. Photo taken by Freshwater resident during high flows on January 1, 1997.

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Boy and dog for scale in the near groiund show the dangerous level of flooding at Howard Heights on New Years Day 1997. Photo by Freshwater resident.

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Flood waters from Freshwater Creek deposited a large amount of silt on this stream side property in January 1997. The fence in the photo also sustained damage. Photo by Freshwater residents

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This clear cut right above a residence in upper Freshwater produced substantial non-point source pollution that was transported accross the neighboring property (see photo #2. Aerial photo courtesy of Doug Thron.

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