The Confluence of SB Spring and SB Canyon Wash

Below left: October 16, 2000, looking out into SBS Canyon Wash after the first flood of that month. Note how the Deer Grass is deflected downstream (to the right). Below right; october 25, 2000 after the second (and even more substantial) flood. Note how the second flood has deposited a bank of silt amidst the deer grass just right of the pool, near where Tom and Michael had been standing. Much silt deposition also occurred in the grasses upstream from this point.

Below: looking upstream at the Confluence in Sept. 1999. Note the cattails in the pool, on the right.

Below: looking upstream at the Confluence in December 2002, during severe drought. The pool is dry and the cattails shriveled, the course of the stream trench more visible.