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https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/coastwatch/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/09/GREEN-SOLUTIONS-Pool-bioretention_supports-pollinators-summer-2025-scaled.jpg25601920While the origins of “Rochester Heights Creek” are modest, its impacts are outsized, carrying the stormwater runoff from nearby roads, parking lots, and buildings. During heavy rain events, this creek — which has no official name in the state’s records — swells and rages, carving dirt out of the streambanks as it turns corners, rising up over the banks behind homes in Rochester Heights, flooding backyards and street intersections, lapping at foundations.