There are fresh and saltwater wetlands, canals, ponds and five miles of a large creek within the site, and more than half the space has been set aside to remain undeveloped.
A health center, shown below, with a fitness area, six tennis courts and indoor and outdoor pools opened last summer, and activities including fishing and boating will be available on a large creek bordering the site.
In 2007, for instance, after a pipe manufacturer in Alabama, a division of McWane Inc., was convicted and fined millions of dollars for dumping oil, lead, zinc and other chemicals into a large creek, an appellate court overturned that conviction and fine, ruling that the Supreme Court precedent exempted the waterway from the Clean Water Act.
They referred to it as "a large creek" and named it Colter's Creek, in honor of John Colter, a member of the expedition.
Upstream of the Cameo dam, we were floating on over 3000 CFS of water; in the middle of the reach, we were on about 400 CFS, a flow closer to large creek than to a river.
Third, the dam had to occur on a river or large creek that supported Chinook salmon in Washington, Oregon, California or Idaho (USA).
Camas and forbs thrived in the thinly distributed seasonal wetlands along the river and its larger tributary creeks.
This difference is caused by the large number of creeks and rivers that flow into the system, largely from the drainage basins of the Colorado and Lavaca Rivers.
There's still water in the creek; large tadpoles are crowding each other out in the remaining waterholes.
