Despite a good dumping of rain this week across the Hall County area, Flat Creek hasn’t become the polluted mess that it was after a torrential storm Aug. 10. “We’ve had some higher amounts and higher stream levels, but a lot of the water we’ve received has just soaked into the ground in a lot of places, because of the dryness we’ve had,” said Brian Wiley, Gainesville’s environmental monitoring coordinator. “So, we have just not seen that massive accumulation of litter that we had seen back (in late summer).”