Posts Tagged ‘Restoration’

So, I talked to the project manager at the County and this latest work on the Grant Creek restoration and flood control project is supposed to wind up next week. Uh huh.
This whole deal (rather ordeal) was sold to the Mullan area residents as both flood control and a restoration of the original look and [...]

HDR Engineering and Jensen won’t be happy until they’ve ripped every living thing out.
Please, make it stop.

Earlier today I saw a neighbor out in the middle of the overflow basin with a shovel and a couple buckets.
Looks like he was getting impatient for the promised water-wise and native-plant-correct revegetation that was supposed to restore this wasteland to its natural splendor.   So am I.

But I’m not sure what would grow when [...]

I guess the flood control engineers knew what they were doing after all. It’s not even high water yet.

The flood plain project in today’s Missoulian is the same one I blogged about here and here.  (This is located out Mullan Road near the Conoco.)
They lowered practically the entire parcel about 10 feet, all the way up to the property lines, so that it resembles a huge empty stock tank. The new culvert now [...]

They’ve shaved the ground clean, done some contouring and are now starting to scrape the hawthorne starting on the west end. The project engineer assured me that they are going to leave some of these in place, since it’s all we have in the way of mature plant life.
Update: The engineer assures me that some [...]

It was a dreary grey day for photos, but I wanted to get some “before” pictures of the Grant Creek Restoration and Flood Control project in the Dino Court common area before Jensen’s dirt movers tear it all apart next week.
This project is going on next door to me in the creek’s lower drainage near [...]