Arcadia Creek Stretch 3 Description:

• Pipe conveys water from east end of pond underground, under dirt drive
• Eroded banks where pipe emerges and sends water along south side of rail road tracks
• Straight channel along tracks
• Little or no shading
• No room for sinuosity between banks and tracks
• Steep banks on each side: north side composed of rocks and bare sand supporting tracks, south side composed of fill supporting Meadow View Village Mobile Home Park (accessible from Stadium Drive)
• South banks very steep (approximately 25 feet high at 80 degree angle) with shrub and vine vegetation and utility line easement
• Extreme amount of litter and debris, dumpster leakage enters creek near west end of stretch, many items observed in banks and in creek
• Major source of erosion
• Goldfish observed at west end of stretch
• Sand substrate