Pouring steps down to the creek/swimming hole...nope, never done it before!

[MotorSeven]

Pasture on right, creek on left and that is the top of the Rock Flood Slough:

The slough...a bit overgrown right now:

 

[MotorSeven]

West leg of the concrete pig wall and the swimming hole in the background:

 

[MotorSeven]

East leg of the pig wall and looking at the slough:

End of the wall facing the swimming hole, first stairs will go here in the lee of the wall.....creek current runs away from the pic:

here:

 

[MotorSeven]

Next downstream from there is the swimming hole proper and the weir:

The idea of the weir pointing into the flow is to slow it down before it slams into the bank;

 

[MotorSeven]

Looking at the weir from down stream:

Second set of steps goes here behind the Weir:

Across from the second steps is the rock dam and gravel island down stream from the swimming hole:

 

[MotorSeven]

Clear as mud?

 

[2manyrocks]

Some friends of mine used to ride their dirt bikes through a creek. They used to say snakes would be crawling out from everywhere when they did that.

 

[rScotty]

Plenty.

Just a couple of concerns for me would be:

If the lower pad is placed where moving water will hit it, it will, someday, get washed out. It's called scouring.

Bridge scour - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If the sides of the stairway get submerged in moving water, they will get undermined at some point. Then the only thing holding them up is the other steps.

Normally the end where scouring might happen is widened with a pad and rip rap. Sometimes rip rap is placed right across the stream above or below the abuttment. Experience counts more than formulas. And Just know that anti-scouring doesn't always work. It depends a lot on the creek bed and velocity.

We've got half a mile of periodically fast moving stream with erosion & have watched the EPA, Emergency Watershed, and riders for local Ag ditches all get it wrong for years.

Most people can get it right for an installation the second time... not simple.

 

[bigtiller]

That looks like a fun place to go wading to get cooled off. How deep is the "hole" in these pics?

 

[dstig1]

Some friends of mine used to ride their dirt bikes through a creek. They used to say snakes would be crawling out from everywhere when they did that.

That has to be both the funniest and most random post on this thread. Thanks!