2.8m is not slap on the wrist.
not sure if link will work.
dusty way red bluff ca, to paskenta rd, ca
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most of the creak sides are lined with farm fields.
zooming out on other hand... and going 3D. looks like a nasty mountain range with possibly a good amount of "slope"? and a lot of erosion issues?
i could see issues, if erosion control was not taken into account. lots of dirt washing away. vs staying in the field. water ways here on the fields on this farm. just to help deal with "silt". one of the lakes, when i was knee high i was. was 7 to 10 plus feet deep. now 30 odd years later. i would venture 1 foot deep. lake is only is filled with water from run off from nearby fields. a lot of dirt!
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ripper comments in article *ughs* that is tilling the dim wit!
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on other hand. dealing with nightmare neighbor of a farmer over the years. and dealing with cows and big poo going into nearby creaks, and letting dead cows, dead pigs, dead sheep rot in or right at the edge of creaks. along with chemical pollution. along with "set backs" of how far you need to be away from body of water / creak.
if the water went from good in creak to above what is average for creak. and erosion was issue. not much farmer can do... still a water way. you can still farm. but farmers can still get nabbed for chemicals running into creaks and like.
being down wind err down creak. of rotting animals and poo going into creak, and chemicals going into creak. *been there done that*