If you look on the uphill side of the highway above the Cresco tank, you can see an odd box, about four by four feet or so. It sticks up a foot or two above the hillside, and looks like some sort of concrete form, or odd square manhole.
On one of our very first trips to C&TS, we hopped out of the pickup and rushed to see if it was something cool like a gold mine (it was almost our first time in the mountains
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Lo' and behold, it's a water trap. Apparently, the creek/spring runs and/or leaks into the bottom, collects, and then when/if the level is above the pipe, it runs downhill into the Cresco tank. There was a small ladder into the trap, but no way was I climbing down there.
I wonder what the flow is into a trap like this?
Tom