Mill Creek is a polluted and heavily channelized stream flowing through the industrial corridor of the Mill Creek Valley in Cincinnati OH. Its banks retain a record of heavy metal contamination from two hundred years of human activity in the valley.
Normal riparian section of Mill Creek at Caldwell Park, looking upstream.
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Partially confined stretch of Mill Creek at Carthage, looking downstream. Note rip-rap lining right bank and auto salvage yard on the left bank.
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Fully confined stretch of Mill Creek at Clifton, looking upstream. Thick glacial lake bed clays occur in this section. Note cribbing lining the left bank.
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Fully confined stretch of Mill Creek at Clifton, looking downstream. Note the industrial buildings and the raliroad bridge.
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Barrier dam across Mill Creek at its mouth, designed to prevent flood waters from the Ohio River from backing up into the valley, as they did in the great 1937 flood.
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