Well, TC Marcia has been and gone, with no damage in Cedar Creek that I have heard about. The creek went up, the bridges went under, the creek went down, the bridges were clear – lets look at the aftermath.
Downstream of the Green Bridge, the swimming hole will soon be full of screaming tourists again, as it is looking good. Its nice to have a flood with no significant damage to be repaired 🙂
Placid water below the Green Bridge… a little different to yesterday!
Upstream of the Green Bridge – doesn’t look like the bridge took any damage this time. Phew!
Under the Green Bridge, you can see a log is stuck, but the structure looks sound.
Above the Green Bridge.
The water in the creek will need a couple of days of flow to clear…
Refuse on the Green Bridge, after the water went down
The new ditch below the cliff above the Green Bridge. Not draining, as usual 😦
The trench beside the cliff above the Green Bridge did its job and I believe the road along here remained water free through the flood, but it would be nice if it drained rather than became a mosquito pool…
The recent work on the cliff edge above the green bridge has held up in the macro, although there has still been a small amount of rock spill.
Some rock spill which needs clearing, but we have gotten away without any damage this time!
Bit of silt and backfill in the ditch… It’ll fill up with a few floods without some maintenance…
At 8am the Low Bridge still had water over it…
… but is quite passable!
Very pretty at the low bridge (don’t fall in, though!)
Water on the low bridge well down from the max…
The Fourth Bridge is now clear – in good news, a lot of the weed trees that were springing up have been ripped out by the rushing water – everything has an upside 🙂
The water isn’t very far below the 4th Bridge, but with no more significant rain forecast the bridge will be clear for some time.
The Pretty Bridge off Cedar Creek road has stood up to the flood – of course!
Upstream of the Fifth Bridge – lots of lovely water here 🙂
The creek is dropping back to normal levels quickly…
(See the current graph on the BOM site by clicking here)
Rainfall was 80 – 90 ml for the area. Rain stopped around 5pm, but was lessening from noon.
Cedar Creek Floods 
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