Archive for April, 2008

Rock Study at the Concrete Bridge

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Concrete bridge at Duke Forest, October 2007

Last fall, the powers that be at Duke Forest (presumably the Forestry department at Duke) re-positioned the rocks on the downstream side of the concrete bridge as shown in the first image. While New Hope Creek is usually gentle, I couldn’t imagine the piles holding up long during the heavy flow periods. The images below show the same view over the winter.

December:
bConcrete bridge at Duke Forest, December 2007

January:
Concrete bridge at Duke Forest, January 2008

February:
Concrete bridge at Duke Forest, February 2008

Though the piles are lost, it’s interesting that the few big rocks held their approximate locations.

Here is a current image. It looks like a new arrangement is being tried.
Concrete bridge at Duke Forest, April 2008