eleventh street's revenge

eleventh street is open again, for what it's worth --- it's not too scenic but we're observing some issues, i think, remaining with the ground water from the springs and branches that originally ran around the north and east sides of the intersection of p'tree and tenth (the southwest side, too, but that's beside the point) --- this is the same branch that gouged the gully that peachtree road circumvented before it was straightened in the 1880s to eliminate the notorious "tight squeeze" ---there were apparently springs just south of eighth between juniper and piedmont and where the federal reserve bank is now located ---  some of the branch was probably already in culverts when clara meer was built in 1894 by damming the main branch a few hundred feet before it intersected with clear creek  just north of the present park avenue bridge--- anyway, today they have a big ol' area, not unlike a sink hole---taped off and the pumps are running again --- the bean counters are distressed