Photo: Looking downstream from Gibson Street. Superior Color Graphics property along the east bank. Auto-sampler equipment (for recording rainfall and creek levels and for collecting water samples) seen on east bank. Banks are a mix of shrub vegetation, mown grass and concrete. Note gabions (wire basket filled with rocks) reinforcing banks in foreground.


Portage Creek Stretch 18 Description:

  • Walnut Street to mouth
  • Concrete walls and banks support by gabions (wire baskets filled with rocks)
  • Mowed grass at beginning, narrow tree cover at middle and end
  • Creek wide
  • Highly impacted by urban development, stormwater and litter
  • Some shading
  • Rail road tracks along east side
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View the erosion and litter of this site


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