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Taming the Kootenay
Images: Landscape

 
Looking north from Boundary Dyke across the Piper Farm.
73 of 175 		The break in the dyke at the Goat River diversion.
74 of 175 		The break in the Goat River diversion.
75 of 175 		Looking south down Reclamation Road in West Creston.
76 of 175 		Road to Creston from West Creston near the West Creston ferry.
77 of 175 		Flood waters erode land.
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Filling sandbags on the Creston flats.
79 of 175 		The dykes collapse as the flood waters recede.
80 of 175 		Building the forms for the sandbag walls.
81 of 175 		Water floods the old Goat River Channel, coming in from the north side of the diversion.
82 of 175 		Men passing sandbags to thestack on the right, along the inner side of the dykes.
83 of 175 		False Mouth, between the Kootenay River and the old Goat River channel, flooded with water.
84 of 175
Placing sandbags along the dykes.
85 of 175 		The Goat River breaking through the 1935 diversion.
86 of 175 		Bracing the dykes against seepage.
87 of 175 		Dykes that were leaking under pressure, being reinforced on both sides.
88 of 175 		Sandbagging efforts to prevent flooding.
89 of 175 		Filling sandbags that were used to brace the dykes and stop them from cracking.
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