Miller Park is a small one block square forested park. The Friends of Upper Arlington do a great job keeping invasive honeysuckle in check. There are two branches of a small unnamed stream. They seem to come out of a large culvert under Tremont Rd near the UA library draining the neighborhood. So, one may assume that this is an ephemeral stream fed by a storm sewer. However, the stream had flowing water in late summer 2025 after several weeks of drought. This suggests that the stream has some groundwater connection, and this may be confirmed by the fact that the water was fairly cool in late summer. The stream
Winter Road Salt by Alaina Engdahl, Rich Fender, Petra Schmalbrock, February 22, 2026; Has your car ever looked like this? After a winter storm, everyone wants our roads and walkways cleared quickly of snow and ice. Road salt helps with that—but too much of a good thing can be a bad thing! Road salt washes into streams and accumulates in ground water. We all know that salt is corrosive and damaging to cars. But did you know how damaging salt is to human health and aquatic life? Increased Use of Road Salt and Accumulation in Rivers and Groundwater According to USGS, we now use about 20 million tons of road