Streams blown out in Chapel Hill | Friends of Bolin Creek https://bolincreek.org/blog Protecting Our Bolin Creek Watershed Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:12:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://bolincreek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-FOBCLogo_Icon-32x32.png Streams blown out in Chapel Hill | Friends of Bolin Creek https://bolincreek.org/blog 32 32 When it Rains it Pours: the Story of a Rain Garden that Failed https://bolincreek.org/blog/2013/07/08/when-it-rains-it-pours/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2013/07/08/when-it-rains-it-pours/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:18:58 +0000 http://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=2478 Chapel Hill experienced a “high intensity rainfall” on June 30th. While it’s no surprise when a series of storms cause gushing rain water to leap out of culverts and normal channels, the flash flood that followed was the surprise. It arose and disappeared quickly but it damaged homes, eroded hillsides and yards, and felled trees by […]

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