Connections Made

As of December 2007, Benson Slash Creek is again a free-flowing stream.  Over the past few weeks we have hydrologically connected Benson's newly-restored streambed and created a series of floodplain wetlands out of the century-old agricultural channel that previously confined its flow. Hydrostatic pressure transducers set within the stream and down in wells among the floodplain monitor the changes in site hydrology in response to restoration.