{"id":1672,"date":"2021-03-01T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northeastcreek.org\/wordpress\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T19:26:37","slug":"which-sub-basin-of-northeast-creek-are-you-in-for-parkwood-area-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northeastcreek.org\/wordpress\/which-sub-basin-of-northeast-creek-are-you-in-for-parkwood-area-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Sub-basin of Northeast Creek Are You In? (For Parkwood Area Residents)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creek Week is coming March 13 through 20. During that week Durham is focusing attention on how individual citizens and property owners can with modest efforts deliver significant benefits to the quality of water moving downstream, especially to Jordan Lake.<\/span><\/p>\n

A fun activity during Creek Week is to find the path that water from your roof, sidewalk, driveway, and patio or deck takes as it goes to Northeast Creek, down Northeast Creek and into Jordan Lake, and down the Cape Fear River to Wilmington.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sub-basins of Northeast Creek in the Parkwood area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To do that, we must perceive streams and their tributary flows of runoff in the foreground and land in the background. Focusing on the flash flood zones at full flood (the flood zones identified on the Sub-basin map) shows the land as necks extending into the fully flooded lake headwaters. After all, one of the primary purposes of Lake Jordan was mitigation of the flash flooding that often occurred in the Haw River and New Hope Creek basins.<\/span><\/p>\n

We see that Parkwood comprises parts of three sub-basins:<\/span><\/p>\n