New development?

[hallett21]

Don’t think I’ve seen this one before. Looks to be less than a mile north of Pirates

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[Devious_Chris]

Hmmmmm


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[hallett21]

Hmmmmm


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I can’t figure out where it gets water from. Both sides look closed although I’m sure that’s not true


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[monkeyswrench]

Can't get there from the water, at least I couldn't figure out how. It looks like somewhere over the years someone maybe burried culverts. I think it was last year there was some sort of PD activity that was brought up on here, same images, so I went looking. Lots of reeds where the pass throughs would be.

 

[Hardly Satisfied]

Interesting

 

[dirtslinger2]

It's been there for years, you can't access the area from the water, but you can get to it offroad from the trail that parallels the rail road tracks from Moabi to Needles. A few people may or may not have been known to drop a standup jet ski in it.

 

[Taboma]

Shows up in an aerial from 1992

 

[Sangerdog]

That is called Beal Slough. good fishing back there. But over grown alot. You can SxS around the river side of it. Sand dune a little.

 

[DWC]

That is called Beal Slough. good fishing back there. But over grown alot. You can SxS around the river side of it. Sand dune a little.

This ^^^. There was row boat sunk at the side closest to the river.

 

[Taboma]

That is called Beal Slough. good fishing back there. But over grown alot. You can SxS around the river side of it. Sand dune a little.

Is it the result of another failed Desert Dream ? Certainly carved for something, although even older black and white aerials seem to show it's origin as being a natural slough.

 

[c_land]

Is it the result of another failed Desert Dream ? Certainly carved for something, although even older black and white aerials seem to show it's origin as being a natural slough.

I would really doubt it. Even if it was privately owned, the Army Corps right-of-way on the river side and the RR right-of-way on the other, it is pretty well landlocked. And Landlocked between two nightmares as far as permitting goes.

 

[Taboma]

I would really doubt it. Even if it was privately owned, the Army Corps right-of-way on the river side and the RR right-of-way on the other, it is pretty well landlocked. And Landlocked between two nightmares as far as permitting goes.

Yeah I tend to agree, seems as far back as 1953, Beal Slough is mentioned as an important remaining backwater fishery of native species. The aerial images from 1985, although of poor resolution, seem to show a different configuration than does the one from 1992 that shows manmade intervention. There is reference to a Beal Slough Fishery Enhancement project from 1987, but no details are given.