thurwatcher bridge

sycamore pool on big chico creek

The concrete pool is the creek, a prime example of integrated urban and natural resource. Could this be a repeatable practice for removing sediment and providing recreation? Or is it a management intensive imposition on the creek?

San Luis Obispo: Urban Creek Restoration

San Luis Obispo Creek, originally uploaded by CookiiHoney.

I need to find out details of this creek restoration and design, especially how all the urban hardscaping holds up during floods. Do they remove the steel fish sculpture during high flows? Do the bridges back up with debris? The channel does not look very wide, although it is deep. I think that the city unearthed a culvert to daylight this creek. This area near the historic Mission and plaza seems like the center of human activity.