A BURIED #1.5 LONGSPRING

I’m standing on the bank of the Ohio River. With all of the dams it’s more like a chain of lakes than a river. The shoreline is sand and mud. There is a peculiar phenomenon that occurs where any small tributary empties into the river. When the river is high, hydrostatic pressure pushes back on the water entering from the creek. This slows the flow of that water and consequently allows the silt