Flooding in Rock Creek

[Anonymous]

The paths are so flooded this week, I've never seen it so bad. It hasn't even rained in a few days. There are large puddles gathered around trees - it's only a matter of time before healthy trees start to fall. I had to run in the street for certain parts because there was no other way around some of the water.

Anyone else have this issue? This is near Kensington but I assume the whole park is affected.

[Anonymous]

I heard it's the same / similar at Sligo Creek.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The paths are so flooded this week, I've never seen it so bad. It hasn't even rained in a few days. There are large puddles gathered around trees - it's only a matter of time before healthy trees start to fall. I had to run in the street for certain parts because there was no other way around some of the water.

Anyone else have this issue? This is near Kensington but I assume the whole park is affected.

Where were you last Saturday starting at 5 pm? It poured heavy rain for 2+ hours straight. My phone received 3 separate flash flood warnings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The paths are so flooded this week, I've never seen it so bad. It hasn't even rained in a few days. There are large puddles gathered around trees - it's only a matter of time before healthy trees start to fall. I had to run in the street for certain parts because there was no other way around some of the water.

Anyone else have this issue? This is near Kensington but I assume the whole park is affected.

Where were you last Saturday starting at 5 pm? It poured heavy rain for 2+ hours straight. My phone received 3 separate flash flood warnings.

We get those a lot in the summer and usually the puddles are gone within a few days. These are new puddles that aren't going anywhere.

[Anonymous]

DC metro area is inundated with invasive vines choking the trees, it's no surprise trees are falling and likely clogging the waterways that's supposed to drain into larger water systems. Clogging can cause localized flooding very easily. But this issue has been neglected for so long, there is hardly a way to do anything about it short of genetically engineering some short lived insect species that would only eat invasive vines and not reproduce after

This invasive specie problem had been handled entirely by volunteers, this should have been public works and part of road work to start with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The paths are so flooded this week, I've never seen it so bad. It hasn't even rained in a few days. There are large puddles gathered around trees - it's only a matter of time before healthy trees start to fall. I had to run in the street for certain parts because there was no other way around some of the water.

Anyone else have this issue? This is near Kensington but I assume the whole park is affected.

Where were you last Saturday starting at 5 pm? It poured heavy rain for 2+ hours straight. My phone received 3 separate flash flood warnings.

We get those a lot in the summer and usually the puddles are gone within a few days. These are new puddles that aren't going anywhere.

The rain on saturday were particularly epic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The paths are so flooded this week, I've never seen it so bad. It hasn't even rained in a few days. There are large puddles gathered around trees - it's only a matter of time before healthy trees start to fall. I had to run in the street for certain parts because there was no other way around some of the water.

Anyone else have this issue? This is near Kensington but I assume the whole park is affected.

Where were you last Saturday starting at 5 pm? It poured heavy rain for 2+ hours straight. My phone received 3 separate flash flood warnings.

We get those a lot in the summer and usually the puddles are gone within a few days. These are new puddles that aren't going anywhere.

The rain on saturday were particularly epic.

And it came after multiple heavy rains in recent weeks. The ground is saturated.

[Anonymous]

Fletcher's Cove along Capital Crescent trail was clogged up by dead trees a few months ago, wasn't summer rain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The paths are so flooded this week, I've never seen it so bad. It hasn't even rained in a few days. There are large puddles gathered around trees - it's only a matter of time before healthy trees start to fall. I had to run in the street for certain parts because there was no other way around some of the water.

Anyone else have this issue? This is near Kensington but I assume the whole park is affected.

I cut 4 trees up last night that were blocking part of the woods trail alongside the creek south of the Saul Road entrance to the Rock Creek Trail.

That section had a LOT of trees come down Saturday. The entire bottomland forest area in the flood plain was inundated on Saturday. The soil there is mostly sand and loess, and although it drains well, once it’s saturated, it doesn’t provide much strength to hold the root mass of large trees in the ground.

I still have more to cut in the section south of Saul Road. The county won’t maintain this trail - it’s not hard surface and not ADA compliant - so it’s up to users to help keep it cleared.

If you have a chain saw, do everyone a solid and go out some work in yourself. If you enjoy this trail, step up and put some sweat into fixing it.