Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

Stanford Run has been modified over the years by agricultural activities, construction of the Ohio & Erie Canal, and regional development. The stream was cut off from the Cuyahoga River and a large wetland of invasive plants formed. As a result, Stanford Road regularly flooded. From winter 2019 to winter 2020, the US Army Corps of Engineers installed a larger culvert under the Towpath Trail and excavated a new meandering stream channel. Volunteers planted about 1,000 native trees. Construction has been completed, but habitat restoration continues.

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Three men in work clothes stand in ankle-deep floodwater looking over a guard rail. One wears an NPS uniform. Another has a jacket with “U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”

Stanford Road Flooding, View W...

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The brown stream flows diagonally from right to left over the road bridge. The banks are lined with trees and dry reeds.

Stanford Road Flooding, View E...

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The men are in work clothes. Standing water comes up to the toes of their boots and hides the bottom of the guardrails on either side. In the background are a mix of trees and tall, dry reeds.

Stanford Road Flooding, View N...

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The water is still and cloudy. The stream’s reed-covered banks are coated in wet mud.

Stanford Road Flooding, View E...

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Winter trees and grasses surround a circular pool of frozen water. On the far side, a curved stone wall sticks out of the raised bank. The top of the bank is flat and marked by pink flagging tape.

Historic Stanford Run Culvert

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An excavator carves a deep cut that divides the snowy trail and connects the wetlands on either side. Black construction fabric unrolls in the foreground.

Excavator Cuts into the Towpat...

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Construction workers stand on a concrete tunnel. It is draped in black fabric and partially buried with gravel. An excavator lifts a metal beam.

Culvert Installed Under Towpat...

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Almost no water flows through the pale gray concrete tunnel. Its outer face is stamped to resemble a stone wall. The stream channel bare earth and stone.

New Culvert for Stanford Run

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A stone-like wall with a culvert in the middle and a wood fence and path overtop.

Guardrails Are Added

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Beyond two orange cones, a small stream cuts through a wetland of tall grasses.

Stanford Run Flows to Cuyahoga...

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The small stream passes under the wood fence in the foreground and is quickly hidden by aquatic plants. Trees dot the open landscape and line the background.

Stanford Run Flows to Cuyahoga...

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Muddy water with more mud piled up on the banks intermixed with straw.

: New Channel by Stanford Road...

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Muddy banks with no vegetation and small stream running through the middle.

New Channel by Stanford Road -...

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Reeds and other plants surround a flooded stream. A large green hose extends into the water.

Before, Stanford Bridge West

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Standing on top a bridge with guard rail in the foreground, muddy banks with little vegetation and a stream running through the middle.

After, Stanford Bridge West-1

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Two men and one woman stand off to the side as a slow-moving stream flows under a bridge.

After, Stanford Bridge East - ...

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Looking over a guardrail down at a small stream with steep, muddy banks. Above the banks are leafless trees and brown grass.

Stanford Bridge, East -1

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A ranger addresses an off-camera crowd while standing on top of bridge with a stream and erosion control efforts in the background.

Stanford Bridge, East -2

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A large field is full of saplings with white plastic tubing around their trunks

Restoring the Floodplain Fores...

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Small trees stick out of white protective tubing with a much larger tree to the left, under a blue sky.

Restoring the Floodplain Fores...

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