University Creek

Brings down lots of water, sediment, and trash

University Creek the only creek in the woodlands that appears on city and county maps, and it unnamed on the maps.

• The creek flows from east to west to north.

• The creek's source is on the eastern side of University Parkway buried under a parking lot.

• The creek flows under University Parkway in a small pipe and exits on the west side in a small pool. Concrete ditches run up the steep hill on both sides of the pool to University Parkway.

• This pool then flows through a large culvert that extends through a small ridge under the Salemtowne perimeter fence and discharges into another small pool. The creek then flows from the pool down the hill, under Babcock Bridge, and down to Babcock Lake. Runoff water and trash from the parkway flow down the creek and into the lake. This runoff water also carries dirt from the ravine that causes the sandbar at the southeast end of the lake to grow larger each year

• The creek then flows out the lake's overflow discharge pipe into the Dragon Pool where flows under the Dam Bridge. As you look south downstream/north from the bridge, the stream flows under the Salemetowne perimeter fence, through Brademere Apartments property, and continues downhill, under Bethabara Park Boulevard, through Hine Park Soccer Fields, and on into Mill Creek.

• Mill Creek flows southwest down from Old Field Creek on the north side of Forsyth County near Baux Mountain until it connects with Muddy Creek near Jefferson Elementary School just off Robinhood Road. Mill Creek is what floods the Sara Lee Soccer Park on Shattalon Drive, the area at the intersection of Bethabara Park Boulevard and Bethania Station Road, the Bethabara Greenway as it extends beside the old mill site, and the large wildlife lake at the intersection of Bethabara Park Boulevard and Reynolda Road.