In this weeks Water Closet, Pike reminisces about his time in the Philippines while serving in the Navy. The massive destruction that Typhoon Haiyan wreaked on the Philippines affects Pike in a personal way having been there and having seen the people and villages that would have suffered at the hands of this storm. Pike reminds us that there is a warning here for us also to prepare for storms of greater intensity as the Atlantic warms.
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike writes about one of the newer beaver dams that can be seen from the Middleton Stream Team’s Park at Logbridge Road. as well as other beaver dams in Middleton, including one impressive structure that is 250 feet long and six feet high in places that backs up water for one half mile.. Not only are these industrious creatures builders, but also engineers in that the Logbridge Rd. dam has been bowed upstream for strength.
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike talks about the Middleton Stream Team’s annual fall hike in which walkers aged 5-82 walked up and down a three mile path which took them through a bog. Pike discusses how the terrain was formed by retreating glaciers which scoured the landscape down to bedrock and then how plants returned from the south. Depressions in the rock filled with water and plants grew on the edges and in time generations died and along with the sediment from run off filled in some of the poorly drained lakes and ponds to become bogs.