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Show . TWENTY-ONE owell Mudflats... ‘ CANYON ES ITSELF nentary by Bill Wolverton lisasterous overfilling of the reservoir in 1983, Floods have deposited an even layer of sand over everything. One of the reported secing a houscboat tied up in the background, when s NEVER supposed to be. RIGHT) Following the heavy runoff down the Escalante cutting of the river mudflat, Coyote Gulch was able to later, it was beginning to look the way it ought to again. ESCALANTE RIVER: May 8. 1999: After IS years of recovery. The bathtub ring is almost gone and the wall striping is starting to redevelop. Note the horizontal lines left by sediment layers. Similar lines are left by naturally occurring sediment deposits washing out. The mudflat has been cut down substantially here when the reservoir was Jow, but has since built back up because of high water levels. |