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  CITIZENS TO CONSERVE
  AND RESTORE INDIAN CREEK
  C/O Pat Blankenship
  6014 Osage Street
  Berwyn Heights, MD 20740
  Phone: 301-474-4875
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Indian Creek is reaching the open area of the gravel mine

First Branchville Road, then Greenbelt Road loom over the creek. Once again into the concrete caverns, to emerge into the straight path of Indian Creek through Berwyn heights, where the Army Corps of Engineers straightened its channels to control flooding in the 1960s.
What is it?
A long-abandoned artifact of decades of mining slowly falls to pieces as the creek bank erodes from under it.
Just upstream, a beaver slapped its tail and vanished under one of the kayaks. Another slid into the water dragging a leafy branch of tulip tree which disappeared like a cluster of submarine periscopes.