Honey Creek (Menomonee Trib)
*Check wood alert!* Honey Creek Pkwy. to Menomonee R. (1.76+2.14 miles)
Water quality: Terrible! Honey Creek has the highest median concentrations of E Coli of tested stream sites in Milwaukee County -- 1,900 colonies per 100 mL -- 200 col/100 mL is maximum acceptable for human contact (swimming). Scenery: Mostly city cement, man-altered stream-bed (gabions - chain-link-fence-wire baskets filled with rock to 'armor' the shores), and 'tagging'. 'Whitewater' (in the first half of this reach) is created by 'hydraulic jumps' (cement ledges) which exist (as I understand it) to aerate the water and somehow/somewhat blow-off some of the downstream momentum.
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