Letort Sinkhole Repairs This Week

[Dave_W]

bigslackwater wrote:
We fished the lower Letort a few years back during a heavy rain event. The kind of day no one with any sense would try to fish but we did! The water turned to chocolate milk fairly quick, then came the debris. I was appalled at the amount of trash coming down the stream channel.... lumber, plastic soda bottles, kids toys, fast food wrappers, bubble wrap, plastic bags, etc...It was constant, not just a random thing here and there.

This is a different problem and is not a new one.

Storms flush out the streets and sewers in Carlisle and much of this, unfortunately, finds its way into lower Letort. It is indeed demoralizing to see and we have efforts to try to mitigate some of this problem but it's a tough dilemma. Lower Letort is, for all practical purposes, an urban stream with the typical challenges that entails. Fortunately, the water quality is good...but we really need a re-charge of ground water over the entire watershed right now.

Every bit of rain helps - today was a good day.

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

Every bit of rain helps - today was a good day.

Amen!

 

[Chaz]

Are there new wells in the LeTort area that may be draining the ground water? How about rainfall this year, we're getting a lot of rain here in the SE Region, it doesn't stop.