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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 9, 2013
Description:
A seaplane pilot's nightmare.
I was surprised to find that the hard stuff was ahead of the soft, suspended silt.
Date Taken:
May 9, 2013
Place Taken:
Central Virginia
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
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23, Max Pix
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Dan Nickens - May 10,2013
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That's an interesting pattern of debris flow, Don.
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Don Maxwell - May 11,2013
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I thought so, too, Dan. It was about half an hour past high tide, and I suspect that influenced the debris flow. There's a secondary channel that runs just west (left) of the low island that's in line with the bridge. (It's called Buzz Island--probably because the old Hopewell Airport was on the point. We live on the approach end of runway 24.) The main shipping channel flows under the middle of the bridge and then stays fairly close to the north bank. Once I saw a tidal bore about two miles upstream of the bridge--all the more surprising because the water is always fresh in this part of the James, almost all the way down to Jamestown Island.
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Dan Nickens - May 11,2013
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Tidal waves, Don, real tidal waves, reflecting through two different media? The famous tidal bore on the Petitcodic River (or Chocolate River, if you prefer the English name) in Canada travels well upstream past the salt/fresh line.
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