That dogleg sure does look familiar!
A dogleg just like that caused a problem locally. Ultimately that dogleg was caused some 40 years before when a farmer decided to use his bulldozer to move the creek on his land. The creek was tiny, seasonal, and nobody cared.
The original farmer had moved on, lots had been created, the land became part of a town subdivision with new owners who bought and built. None of the new owners knew that the stream had been moved 30 or 40 years before.
Then along came some years with more than normal precipitation causing annual flooding problems on the new roads and driveways.
This was all a sort of local mystery until someone thought to dig out some old maps - then the cause of the problem became obvious.
The solution was to move the downstream section of the creek back to where it was originally, deepen the channel, and rock line the banks. Then the various upstream low water crossings and small bridges became effective.
rScotty