The dam is still there

If you live in the Baltimore area, you may have noticed that it rained today. I thought it might be fun to look at the USGS stream data for Minebank run.

Whoa, look at that.

As it usually does during a heavy rain, the stream went in to flood mode. I imagined that the dam was probably overwhelmed. 

I decided to drive up to the park to see for myself. 

I was wrong. The dam was still there. Which was a very pleasant surprise. 

breached on the 15th.

The dam was breached once already this month, on the 15th.  

The beaver pair repaired it pretty quickly, and have been reinforcing it; apparently

repaired by the 22nd.

in good shape on the 28th.

and still holding up on the 29th.

Enjoy a couple videos that I captured recently. 

More later.