Aerial Gallery 4
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This is a view looking
due-east towards the infamous logjam on the Sulphur River near
the bridge at Texas Highway 37, from Mount Vernon to Clarksville.
Note how the logjam has grown completely over with grass and weeds,
meaning that a lot of silt and mud has accumulated amongst the
jammed logs, which are there as a result of the straightening
of the North and South Sulphur Rivers, as shown in Gallery 2.
At the start of the logjam, there is a new channel that zigzags
southeast and then southwest, where the flow of the jammed river
has been diverted by Mother Nature. East of this logjam the old
riverbed peters out into nothing; and small creeks, which used
to flow into the river, now flow into what is fast becoming a
marshland instead of a hardwood forest, as before. At the top
righthand portion of the photo one can see the new river channel
that has been formed when the river water was diverted. This new
river channel essentially follows the overflow stream from Sanders
Slough, which runs from north of Talco and past the southern extremity
of River Crest Lake, seen in Gallery 3. All of this heavily forested
land would be flooded or lost to mitigation for the Marvin Nichols
Reservoir on Sulphur River. The reason that lake promoters don't
want to spend money to remedy this logjam is that they think if
they are succesful in constructing Marvin Nichols, then the logjam
is irrelevant, since it will be flooded and buried under the waters
of the Marvin Nichols Reservoir on Sulphur River. Let's forget
about cleaning up this logjam and save our money for Marvin Nichols,
these lake promoters (such as Judy Lee, Michael Burke and Bill
Ratliff) would be thinking.
Here one can see
the new channel that has formed since the development of the logjam.
The river water flows into this small pond and then eastwardly
along the overflow creeks from Sanders Slough and into the new
riverbed channel which is shown in the upper righthand portion
of the previous photograph.
A power line runs
through the center of this photo. This power line goes from Clarksville
to River Crest Lake and from there southwestwardly. At the point
at which this power line crosses the Sulphur River is the point
at which the new river channel, diverted by the logjam, re-enters
the old riverbed. From this power line eastwards to Lake Wright
Patman, the river flows unimpeded. All of this land would be flooded
or lost to mitigation for the Marvin Nichols Reservoir on Sulphur
River.
This is a southwestward
view of the Sulphur River southeast of Cuthand. All of this heavily
forested land would be flooded or lost to mitigation for the Marvin
Nichols Reservoir.
This is a view looking south from
the vicinity north of Sugar Hill. All of this land would be flooded
or lost to mitigation for the Marvin Nichols Reservoir.
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