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No, I work on a local stream I live by that has had over a century of ills done it it. It was turned into a ditch/dyke system in the 1850s to move felled trees to the main river, while the surrounding ravine and old growth forest was clear-cut. Then a few decades later the headwater was turned into a landfill that led into the ravine and this landfill lasted nearly a century and was left as an abandoned gravel pit of sorts until the early 2000s. The landfill has been remediated and turned into a park and elementary school, with the headwaters being reduced and partially lost and replaced by a man-made stream that then passes under a road, into another man-made stream, and then down into the ravine (the closest to untouched any part of the creek is). From there it goes down two concrete tubes into a concrete waterway, passing underneath a farm, and emptying into its modern ditch/tributary system that passes through an agricultural area, under major highway, past a car recycling plant, through an industrial area, and finally through a floodgate that prevents salmonids from accessing the creek.
