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Little Sugar Creek restoration photo gallery
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Project area - 7th Street to Morehead Street
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- 5,940 linear feet of stream restored
- 1,300 linear feet of concrete cap removed
- Six years of demolition and construction
- $3.557 million (stream restoration and uncapping)
- 54% state grants and 46% Storm Water Services fees
- Project goal is improved water quality
Cost does not include buying flood-prone land near the creek or constructing the greenway trail
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Upstream from CPCC 2008
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Spring 2011
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Same section - summer 2011
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Looking downstream 2007
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Same location 2011
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From 4th Street bridge 2007
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Same section 2010
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From 4th Street bridge spring 2011
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Fall 2011
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Before restoration 2006
Concrete covers most of the creek
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During restoration 2009
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Uncapping the
creek 2007
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Same section 2008
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Same section 2010
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Before restoration 2006
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Same location 2010
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Parking lot covers creek 2006
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Parking lot is gone 2011
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Midtown area 2007
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Same location 2008
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Adding a curve 2007
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Curve - 2008
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Curve - 2009
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Removing the cap 2007
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Same location 2010
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Five photos from same location 2007
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2011
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Looking upstream 2006
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Same location 2011
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Looking downstream 2006
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Same location 2008
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Same location 2010
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Creek hidden under
concrete 2002
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Creek being restored 2011
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2008
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Same location 2009
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Same location 2010
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Newly-constructed
wetland 2009
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Wetland 2010
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Kings Drive and creek 2002
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Same section 2011
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April 2008
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May 2008
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June 2008
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