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Inspect Creek Crossing Damage

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Farm almost lost in the blink of an eye....days of hard work..just lost..

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What happens here

The narrator stops his UTV to walk and inspect a creek crossing that he built himself. This crossing, vital for accessing other parts of the farm, was constructed with rip-rap rock and a pipe to manage water flow. He points out how the extreme water levels, rising approximately 6 feet out of its banks, washed away a large amount of the rock and dirt, completely exposing the pipe and making the crossing unusable. He expresses dismay at the destruction of days of work and the financial implications.

Goal: The narrator inspects a creek crossing on his property, which was built with rip-rap rock and a pipe, to assess the flood's impact. Despite efforts to prevent washing, the extreme water flow displaced significant amounts of rock and earth, rendering the crossing impassable.

Tools and materials

  • Dirt/Soil N/A
  • Large corrugated pipe N/A
  • Rip-rap rock N/A

What they say

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right here and this is our bridge this is our way to get over to the other side of the farm and this is what it did this is called rip wrath Rock and we put this in here we layer it in here just to keep washing from happening well it slowed the water down on this end and it did a good job it did what we're supposed to do but as the water flowed over it gains speed and it just took out a huge amount of dirt from this pipe right here I don't know if my insurance will cover repairing this stuff or what but not cool at all it's a mess we'll go ahead down and show you the state maintained road that's all washed out this stuff has me questioning like we were thinking of building our house over here and having an access point that crosses the creek this Creek with our changing weather systems is not going to be something that I contain it's just not gonna be something I can tame I'm gonna have to repair this stuff probably for the rest of my doggone life I don't know there was no pipe big enough that I can afford to put in that Creek to keep it from running over that bridge right there it tore up our other bridge really bad we're gonna go down and look at that and we'll show you the state road this was a significant enough storm to change the landscape of our farm forever amazing you got a big old tree Lin there I have to get that cleaned up this is worse than the other pipe up there so water was up in this Creek Valley right here and water just came

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