The Brook

[Gasifier]

With this warm weather, and some precipitation, you are going to get more water one way or the other. School cancelled today for kids. No cutting wood for Dad.

 

[thewoodlands]

I made a run back in later today,the lane was covered with ice (pic 6901) the brook is higher than it was yesterday with the melting and rain (pic 6902& 6904) the trails are real sloppy just like in pic 6905, in pic 6906 there was some ic that was hung up but with the warmer weather it broke up.

 

[thewoodlands]

This was the Brook the other day, with all the rain we're getting it should be even higher tomorow.

 

[thewoodlands]

Went down to the Brook, still plenty of room for more melt off or rain. We had about five bridges blow out years back, one before the brook enters the woods and the one I'm standing on, the water was running over the road by two to three feet.

 

[thewoodlands]

We took the sleds for a small ride today on our property, attached are a few pictures. The picture below is a big ice jam that happened after all the cold weather and then the warmup, I deleted the ice jam picture so the pic below was when it was forming. About 13 years ago the bridge below the ice jam was taken out by high water in September.

 

[vinny11950]

Beautiful place. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

 

[thewoodlands]

Beautiful place. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Thanks, the property the Brook is on is separate from our house property and we feel very lucky to have bought it. If we get a lot of snow in the winter and then some spring rains, the Brook fills up real quick.

The wild leeks that grow in the spring make the whole property smell like a very strong onion.

 

[sportbikerider78]

Looks just like a brook we own in the Petersburg/Postenkill area. Beautiful country.

 

[thewoodlands]

On the way back from a ride today, we noticed the ice is taking down a Hemlock from our side so I'll get a closer look tomorrow.

 

[thewoodlands]

Our town highway supervisor was going to clear two ice jams but wasn't sure which one he would do first, the one above the bridge or the one below the bridge. I think the one above the bridge would've been first but neither have been cleared and it's been over a week.

Everything pictured is above the bridge with the ice taking out trees.

 

[thewoodlands]

About 7 or 8 years ago, we had a company out of Ohio (hope that's correct) ask us if we would let them on our property to check the water quality and they shocked it for trout but we never heard what the results were. This year we received a letter from a different company asking the same which they did last week when both of us were gone, I'll try to contact this company in hopes of getting some of the results.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

When I worked for DEC we did some electroshocking. Lots of fun!


They try to do the same area over and over so they can compare results.

 

[thewoodlands]

When I worked for DEC we did some electroshocking. Lots of fun!


They try to do the same area over and over so they can compare results.

I think it was an outside contractor who did the work for the DEC, would the DEC do that?

We're looking through a few files for the info.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

When I worked for them they didnt have contractors doing it, but maybe they do now. The equipment used isnt expensive or complicated and plenty know how to do it.

The biggest reason I could think not to outsource it is it's one of the few times the biologists get to go out into the field. They all got into the job for the field work, but as you go up the chain there's less and less of it.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

It might be as simple as getting one of the local universities to do it. I'd bet Cornell or Paul Smith's would send a crew up your way. It's probably a bit far for Cobleskill.

 

[bholler]

Trout unlimited does allot of it as well.

 

[thewoodlands]

It might be as simple as getting one of the local universities to do it. I'd bet Cornell or Paul Smith's would send a crew up your way. It's probably a bit far for Cobleskill.

They tied blue ribbon/tape on every spot they checked along the brook, it looked like someone had surveyed it. I'll see if I can find the companies name before the end of this week.

The first company that did it hired college students, I remember they stopped here the night before and both seemed like good kids. I was at work but my wife was back there when they did it.