San Gabriel River of the Angeles National Forest (CA)
January 21, 2005
"Can't stop this."
The hazard of the campground flooding can repeat at anytime in this flood plain.
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(Camp's fire Chief Jim Lewis) said it'll take about $1.5 million to restore the campgrounds.
— San Gabriel Valley Tribune 1/28/05
East Fork River Follows Camp flood damage Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California
Washed-out roadway (in foreground) drops vertically about 8 feet to riverbed.
Some reports had this bridge as having been washed out.
Actually, it wasn't. Only the bridge's road approach ramps were
washed away exactly as they were engineered to do to relieve the
flood pressure against the bridge. What is shown in the above
photograph was carefully preplanned.
East Fork River Follows Camp flood damage Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California
Now what the camp needs most is 250 tons of large boulders to shore up
the bridge that reaches over the river.
"We can also use 110 yards of concrete to pump onto the rock and make a brim,"
said Lt. Tim Bowling with the Follows Camp Volunteer Fire Department.
— San Gabriel Valley Tribune 1/28/05
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Note: Such plans to protect the bridge would temporarily back-up the next
flood causing far greater pressure upon the bridge structure and far greater
erosion and damage to the camp. Such a lack of forward thinking has left
nearly half of the fire department's equipment destroyed by flooding. Joe
Davison's original plans to have the bridge's ramps wash out remains the
best for the safety of the bridge and the camp.
East Fork River Follows Camp flood damage Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California
Road path from main entrance bridge to The Fort.
The trolley (box-like structure) under bridge transports
emergency supplies across the river.
East Fork River Follows Camp flood damage Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California
Some flood water did flow through The Fork's (the restaurant's)
parking lot, but the outer brim kept most of the water force out.
East Fork River Follows Camp flood damage Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California
East Fork River Follows Camp flood damage Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California
L.A. County truck carries rocks from a quarry in Riverside County
to shore up a part of East Fork Road above Camp Williams.
Remarkably, there is no local source for large rocks.
East Fork River Follows Camp flood damage Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California
Some of Follows Camp's camping soil now lies on this sandbar
which was entirely created by the flood waters about a mile
west of the camp, near the mouth of East Fork.
East Fork Road, Follows Camp, Camp Williams, flooding, National Forest, San Gabriel River.
