The headwaters of Willow Creek is off the beaten path. Since the inception of tapping Eagle Lake for irrigation in the 1870s, its natural stream channel provided for the perfect conduit for the water flow from a Eagle Lake tunnel to the Honey Lake Valley. The spring located at Murrer’s Upper Meadow, a future post is scheduled on that topic, was just a short distance from Eagle Lake. The biggest obstacle, of course, was the tunnel construction. The original Merrill tunnel outlet was only a mile or so northwest of the headwaters of Willow Creek. When the Bly tunnel was completed, it was due west of the headwaters on the opposite side of the meadows.

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