Axtell Creek Stretch 5 Description:

• Creek flows from underground culvert under Westnedge Avenue and emerges at National City Bank property with highly eroding banks
• Parking lots very close to south banks nearly overhanging steep eroding stream banks
• Beginning of stretch contains shrubby eroding steep banks
• Portion of stretch before Park Street has banks with mown lawn and little shading
• Creek flows under Park Street and widens out into Crosstown Ponds with no vegetation and no shading
• Pond banks are highly eroding, grass is mown to edges
• Many geese and ducks strip vegetation and cause high nutrient inputs
• Water clarity decreases
• No shading of water
• Flow decreases
• Carp observed in pond
• Northeast end of small pond east of Rose Street collects large amounts of litter at grate
• Creek flows into underground pipe at grate
• Muck substrate