Muddy Creek Trout Unlimited   Chapter # 575

York County, Pennsylvania

Examine these photos to get an idea of the project out come. You have to see it to believe it. The project begins in Woodbine below the bridge where a mid-channel bar and widening shallowed the creek. This was repaired by removing the bar and pinching the channel with toe protection and bank grading. The mid channel bar should not return. Downstream of hte bridge some 300 yards is where Bald Eagle tributary enter Muddy. This stream when flooding would push the flow of Muddy against the north bank on the Cooper property, erosion occurred creating 6'high banks and looss of mature sycamores each year. To correct this the radius of  Bald Eagle where it enters Muddy was altered to  merge more efficiently and toe protection was used to prevent its future movement. . On Muddy Creek two huge J hook structures were installed using log vanes and very large rock. to guide the water down the channel instead of against the bank. Banks were graded from 6' to a 1:3 slope and trees were planted to stabalize soils.

Toe protection and bank grading below the Woodbine bridge. A mid channel bar was also removed.

Where Bald Eagle enters Muddy Below Woodbine bank grading and toe protection with a sweep downstream.

At Bald Eagle Confluence bank grading of 6' tall banks and two JHook Structures were installed to eliminate bank erosion on the right side.

Downstream of Bald Eagle JHooks, toe protection incorporated into existing stable rock structures.

JHook # 1 on the Manns Property.

Downstream of JHook #2 on Manns Property.

Log Vane and Jhook #3 on Manns Property.

Reconstructed point bar on Manns. This used to be the middle of the creek.

New point bar is now vegetated with Ash Trees

Along the second section below Bald Eagle on the Ron Manns Property ther was a split in the channel created years ago from  a crude rock dam used for swimming. Each year the mid channel bar gre larger taking up to two feet of soil each year from the Manns property. Ultimately a 70 foot sycamore which uprooted during a flood in 2004 rested on the point bar causing even more severe erosion to both banks. To correct this problem, ARRC removed the tree, graded the mid channel bar back to construct a point bar and installed three very large J hooks to guide the water around the new point bar. The sycamore was used as a log vane in the third structure.