# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-08-05T15:39:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Walking his bike through the mess along Bolin Creek Trail, 33-year Chapel Hill resident Loren Hintz said he has never seen a flood this bad.

“This is more than Hurricane Fran, and in terms of businesses, I think every business that I’ve talked to the water is three or four feet higher than it’s ever been,” he said. “So it’s a lot, lot more.”

The intense flooding brought by Tropical Depression Chantal in early July devastated parts of Orange County, including several of the walking and biking trails around Chapel Hill. As an avid cyclist, Hintz bemoaned the damage along Bolin Creek, where he had to dismount at the barriers blocking off the unusable bike trail. A teacher with a 48-year career in ecological biology, he also warned that floods will be more frequent and more severe if green spaces are not preserved. 

“Preserving more green space, changing the state law which has gotten rid of protection for intermittent streams, I think that’s really important,” he said. “Another thing which I wish they would have done years ago is put warning signs for all the businesses and parking lots that this area is subject to flooding. I’ve never seen those signs, and they need to go up.”

Kevin Robinson, the senior park planning and operations manager for the Town of Chapel Hill, is overseeing the recovery of the trails around town following the damage they sustained from Chantal. Robinson has worked in Chapel Hill for 25 years and also said this was the worst flooding he had ever seen. He said the worst is the Bolin Creek Trail, where the concrete path of the greenway was undercut, utilities were damaged, vegetation around the creek is largely flattened, and random scraps of debris are strewn all around.

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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