Paint Creek Project

Paint Creek is the stream we have adopted as our own to maintain and improve.  As you can see from this photo, it is a project that has been ongoing for many years.  This photo was recently unearthed by a member, and no one even remembers the date on it, though they do remember the work involved!

Log Jam Cleanup May 2002

We were invited by the Paint Creek Trail Commission to clear out a logjam under one of the Paint Creek Trail Bridges by Dutton Road.  Working with them, there about 20 volunteers clearing out the mess in about 3 hours time.  Along with the log jam, we had a bail of fencing that we found as well.

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Rooster tail a Husqarvana Chain Saw can make when  it's blade is submerged in water!

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The stream restoration was  completed in the summer of 2001.  See coverage by The Detroit News (more>>).  The project involved adding gravel bed and trout cover in the stream at the downtown Lake Orion Park.  A 19" Brown Trout was reportedly taken in this stretch in the spring of 2002.

One of the cleanups was done in December 1999.  A bright, sunny, but cold day.  And it is amazing what you find in streams that shouldn't be there!

These pictures are from phase 1 finished in November 2000.