These are day markers warning vessels of the hazard of the Runnel Stone. The snow fed water runnel tapped at an elevation of 3,788 mets. A buoy currently marks the position of the Runnel Stone. They showed a runnel of blood and a pistol attached to a tap. On its landward side there is often a shallow runnel. The basin between a sandbar and the shore zone is called the runnel or swale. McKellips died at Runnel Village in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The channel itself is also often called a wheeling ramp, push ramp or runnel.