I have seen the light

[cladking]

Of course I cheated a whole lot. Once it was channeled I just kept cutting roots so the moving water would carry away a lot of dirt. There are lots of ways to reduce the workload on any job and the best is to let mother nature do most of the real work. It's not much of a river and doesn't even flow all year every year but it handles a huge amount of flood water and that was much of the reason it was needed.

I spent years on it and now there are hardwood trees where there was once just scrub and swampy area. It started as a creek long ago but people filled it in with garbage and particulate runoff from farming. The town takes care of it now days but it could look like a park again with just a couple years work.