Where Three Become One EarthCache
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I found a way to be able to FULLY MAINTAIN a cache while not actually living in the area...place an EARTHCACHE at a GREAT and UNIQUE feature in the area! The confluence of these three creeks is the the center of this earthcache. PLEASE stay on the trails provided by the MetroParks! There is no need to bushwhack. This Earthcache is OFFICIAL: Permit #GCP14-0012-10.
Three Creeks Metro Park was named for the confluence where Alum Creek, Big Walnut Creek and Blacklick Creeks join in a 1,050-acre park that offers miles of trails that parallel the stream corridors as they wind through forests, fields, prairies and wetlands.
Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, and they serve as corridors for fish and wildlife migration. The biological habitat in the immediate vicinity of a stream is called a riparian zone. These zones are important natural "biofilters", protecting aquatic environments from excessive sedimentation, polluted surface runoff and erosion. They supply shelter and food for many aquatic animals and shade that is an important part of stream temperature regulation.
Rivers and streams flow in the path of least resistance, that is they curve around over the surface of the Earth with the least amount things to stop it. The best way is obviously downhill and where the dirt is more readily movable. Overtime, the flow can change because it finds an "easier way" to maneuver to its confluence or delta.
In the case of these three creeks, they happen to converge at one point, a rarity at best! It is very unlikely to ever see this happen naturally because the flows are all over the place and totally at the mercy of natural events and features. Columbus truly has a hidden gem here.
Requirements:
1. At the coordinates provided, find out what two things help prevent erosion locally.
2. At the reference point, measure how wide the creek is now that you are south of the confluence.
3. At some point NORTH of the confluence, measure the width of ONE of the three creeks. Is it 1/3 of the converged creek? Any insight on why this is?
If you do not email your answers with a found it log, I reserve the right to delete your log.
Congratulations to DerSchnelleLinus for earthcache find #100!!!
Congratulations to Blue Dragonfly for earthcache find #1!!!
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