Video of Heavier Storm Runoff - Disc Golf - Upper Bidwell Park

This uses footage shot earlier in the day (about 3 hours earlier) for a runoff comparison during different stages of the storm. The majority of this video was shot with a different camera. The both the sound quality and video were mostly too poor to use much of, but this gives a better idea of just how much water runs off steep shallow soils sitting on top of a lava cap.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• soil erosion
• Bidwell Park
• Chico
• hydrology
• disc golf
• disturbed areas
• sheet erosion
• rill erosion

[mywedgy]

Note how many parallel trails and wide barren swaths result from the pattern of disc golf use.

This is unlike other recreation activities owing to the players retrieveing discs that miss the mark.

Also, I wonder how much of that sediment runoff winds up on the salmon-spawning gravels in Big Chico Creek?

And to hear the disc golf players complain about how "unfair" rainy-weather closures is disheartening.

The City of Chico should pay attention to the soil scientists.