well i understand now that it only flows when it rains hard so most of the time its dry anyhow, i didnt mean to be questioning your work harv, just a thing i wondered about, but like i said i wasnt sure cause i know you guys have alot different soil and climate down there. i just was wondering cause i know around here anything like that in a brook that flowed year round would be rusted away in a matter of a decade or two unless kept cleaned and painted very often, but i suppose alot of that is the salt runoff from our roads too that must realy be hard on that stuff, but down there you dont have that problem at all. i hope you didnt take my comments as negative since you said "your right we shouldnt have done the bridge project at all" cause thats definatly not the case, it came out great and i would love to make something like that over our brook someday, but i would need to design it a bit different so there wouldnt be so much steel down near the water since our brook is wet year round. but a very nice job indeed, looks incredible like every project you have ever posted harv, and cant wait to see what it looks like with the stone on it