No Good Choices!

Downstream of our recommended take-out, the creek approaches the WE Energies Port Washington Powerplant. At times of higher flows, the creek splits here. The historic channel heads left, and is quite narrow and filled with cattails and shrubs, making passage difficult-to-impossible. As the creek passes under the roadway to Coal Dock Park, very low-slung horizontal pipes span the creek at a height which precludes any safe passage.

The second alternative from the split would be to the right. Peak flows will spill over a cement wall into a channel which passes south of the WE Energies powerplant. Railings on that wall preclude dropping into the channel below. Rocky rubble lines the whole channel down to the lake. Having enough water to make this channel anything close to boatable is likely to be far too much water to make the bash-and-crash (down the narrow, strainer-and-sweeper filled main portion of the run) anything close to sane or do-able!

For the above reasons, it is virtually mandatory to exit the creek before this point!