Engineering Gone Wild

Averse to altering natural features of land beyond construction of shelter and supporting systems, it's still fun to visualize enhancements to the parcel for both functional and aesthetic effect, not the least being engineering part of the seasonal stream to always flow like an artesian well would. Something like this with its simulated spring source being an exercise pool with solar-powered pumps recirculating water from it into a section of the stream.

But such engineering works have no chance of surviving natural flood events occuring at upredictiable times. A millionaire building a canned wildlife hunting facility not too far from here learned that the hard way last time a seven inch rain washed away some impressive concrete crossing structures he had just constructed in his own seasonal stream bed. Now that installation is just a tumble of disjointed slabs of manmadedness, rendered into eyesore.