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Taming the Kootenay
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Surveyors building dykes on the flats.
37 of 175 		The Klockman house during the dyking project.
38 of 175 		Men dyking the Kootenay River.
39 of 175 		Dredge used for building dykes along the Kootenay River.
40 of 175 		Dredges were used to construct dykes on the Kootenay Flats.
41 of 175 		Huge scrapers working on the dyking of the flats.
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After the completion of the major portion of the dyking project in October of 1935.
43 of 175 		View of the Creston Flats flooded in the spring of 1938.
44 of 175 		Flood waters overflow the banks of the river in 1938.
45 of 175 		Flooding of agricultural land on the Creston Flats.
46 of 175 		Road looking out over Creston flats of beginnings of flood.
47 of 175 		Flood waters destroyed crops and damaged homes on the flats.
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Flooding of the farmland.
49 of 175 		The Goat River channel flooding, 1938
50 of 175 		Harry Christenson with one of his scrapers repairing flood damage to the dykes.
51 of 175 		Water rises along the dykes. Sandbags are being placed to strengthen the dykes.
52 of 175 		Plank boadwalks enabled workers to stay above the muddy ground.
53 of 175 		Filling sandbags on the flats.
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