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[mattb123]

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[NS_Sailor]

Spring Debris from Beaver dam

[KC0PET]

Yes, the floodwaters are mostly stagnant, but the main channel of the Missouri River is off in the distance and it is ripping along.

[WPRESTO]

As with the image above, the smooth surface of this little stream hides water that is moving along very briskly. It is just emerging from a bottleneck created by the old RRRoW on which I'm standing. On the opposite side there are extensive fields and lawns that provide a lot of runoff that backs up and comes through the tunnel below with gusto. I took this picture primarily because of the viburnum and honeysuckle blooming along the sides of the stream.

[goatsNdonkey]

Yes, the floodwaters are mostly stagnant, but the main channel of the Missouri River is off in the distance and it is ripping along.

While it is bad for folks on the flood plain, the more flood water spreads out onto the flood plain and then slowly finds its way back to the channel, the less flooding the people downstream will have to cope with.

And then, too, when that flood water spreads out and drops its load of silt, it is fertilizing those fields, and is repeating what got that soil so rich in the first place.

My grandfather's farm--in Adams County, Illinois--was partly on a flood plain, not of the Mississippi, not of the Illinois River, but of McKee Creek (locally known as Muhgee Crick). His only really good crop field was along the crick. His upland fields, formerly forested land with thin brown soil, would grow grass and, with fertilization, crops of hay, but he could only grow corn to feed his hogs in that floodplain field. Sometimes the field would partly flood, after he had planted, rotting the seed or seedling plants, and when the water went down, he'd have to replant those rows by hand with a hoe and bag of seed (often with his eldest child, my Mom, helping out). Some years, nearly the entire field would flood, but then the whole field got refertilized. But with the house, barn, barnyard--improvements as they are called--up on the bluff or other high ground, the floods were mainly inconveniences not ordeals of damage and destruction. And when the floods left a pond full of water in lower part of that flood plain field, lasting several weeks sometimes, it was often stocked with some good-sized catfish to catch.

[aaacb]

A few angles of Duck Falls in NH. I used a polarizer, handheld because carrying a tripod was too much for the day. Processed in darktable to remove distracting branches and such (especially the first photo) and darken the rocks on the left. I think I'll keep the last one, letting them sit together for a while.

[aacjr]

[paulh]

[paulh]

[jquill]

Exeter River Pickpocket Dam, Exeter, NH. One of the remaining dams formerly used to control the water flow for the old Exeter Mills.


Pickpocket Dam

[baro-nite]

High Falls, West Fork of the Tuckaseege River. It's about to get a lot wetter. There's a dam not far upstream, and ordinarily most of the water is diverted to a power station a few miles downstream. Several times a year there are scheduled releases for the kayakers, and this is about an hour before the falls goes from quiescent to booming in a matter of seconds.

K-1, three-shot shift panorama with the Rokinon 24/3.5 tilt/shift.

[WPRESTO]

If you remember, or look back among earlier posts on this thread, I've posted multiple images of this waterfall. The cloud of mist changed from minute to minute, as you would expect. At this moment, a puff of mist has drifted off like an ephemeral ghost. The Sun will dissipate it very quickly.

[baro-nite]

High Falls, West Fork of the Tuckaseege River.

About an hour later ...

[IgorZ]

About an hour later ...

Really nice!