This is a video of a trip to remove fallen leaves that had clogged an intake a little way into the mountains to return water to a dried up creek.
The creek, which has not been concretized, is home to crabs, dragonfly eggs, and birds that come to bathe in the water. Therefore, if the water does not flow for a long time, the creatures are affected.
Every year in late fall and early winter, when it rains heavily and strong winds blow, large amounts of fallen leaves flow into the creek and block the water intake, causing the water volume in the creek to drop drastically.
The creek beside us had low water the day before and stopped in the evening.
The person in charge seemed to have removed fallen leaves, and the next day in the morning it began to flow as usual, but in the evening it became thin again.
The next day, the sand on the riverbed had dried up.
On that day, the person in charge (I was told that the neighboring district is in charge of managing the intake, but I have no idea who does it in that district) moved too slowly or did not get the water flowing right away. So, I went for a walk (by car on the way) and picked up fallen leaves for the first time in a long while.

Actually, the creek next to our house has a somewhat higher bed than the main creek because the area around our house has not been concretized (it started out at the same height, but was raised as the field was being developed), so even though there is little water flowing in the main creek, the water stops flowing early in the creek next to our house, This meant that even if there was little water flowing in the main channel, the creek beside it would stop flowing early, and we could tell that the intake was clogged early.

I love taking a little walk in the middle of nowhere and cleaning up the clogged leaves.

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