Scour, in an engineering context, refers to the erosion of soil surrounding bridge foundations such as piers and abutments. This occurs when fast-flowing water removes sediment, forming scour holes ...

When we're talking about scour, it's just, um, during high creek flows when we get these storms like in 2017 and 2023, we just get erosion around the abutments where the uh gravel and silt erodes ...