A rainy day brought to my attention a river on the Lafayette campus. With the heavy rains this past week all of the roads on campus became a river of rainwater and leaves. The river followed the natural slope of the hill, flowing down in the direction of Easton. Like the Delaware, the road-river picked up objects along the way and they got caught in corners around the outside of the bend.
Today we traveled to the water treatment plant. I found it really interesting that the gates there used the same type of mechanism as the locks on the Delaware canal (as shown above). I guess if it works well there’s no reason to use any different system.
I was walking on campus last week after class and noticed that the bark on this tree near Skillman Library has lines and cracks in it that resembles a river with many connecting streams and tributaries.
Below is an image of the Merrimack River located in the Northeast of the United States. It spans 117 miles through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. Currently it is on the list of America’s top 10 most threatened rivers. Waste flows through the river and contaminates it and goes off it the nearest brook or stream.
Heading down to Fisher Stadium, I noticed these crevices within the wood chips on the curb. I realized that the heavy flow of water downhill from the rain that poured earlier caused these to form. The flowing water was strong enough to make its own pathway within the wood chips, just how rivers create their own pathways on Earth’s landscape.
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