Have a lot of the same trouble here with driving in creeks, even just crossing one gets the dander up on the nature nazi's around here.
I am one of those nature nazis but i think we went to far.
Shoot, its gonna make its way into the sewer drain somehow ( im good with oil but not perfect). Our city ran that to the river. but i can't drive through said tributaries of such river. I just wanna wash my truck "the natural way".
That's some impressive dander if you ever do get it up my friend