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Taming the Kootenay
Images: Work

 
After the completion of the major portion of the dyking project in October of 1935.
19 of 95 		Harry Christenson with one of his scrapers repairing flood damage to the dykes.
20 of 95 		A wall of planks, driven into the ground on the outside of the dykes, to deflect the river's water.
21 of 95 		Water rises along the dykes. Sandbags are being placed to strengthen the dykes.
22 of 95 		Plank boadwalks enabled workers to stay above the muddy ground.
23 of 95 		Filling sandbags on the flats.
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Filling sandbags.
25 of 95 		A line of men working passing sandbags quickly to stop seepage.
26 of 95 		Men working to strengthen the dykes and sandbag against the rising water.
27 of 95 		Pounding planks vertically into the ground to deflect the river's water away from the dykes.
28 of 95 		Sandbags and wood structures brace the dykes against breaking.
29 of 95 		Women serving sandwiches and coffee to the men that were working on the dykes during the 1948 flood.
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Sandbag wall reinforcing the dyke.
31 of 95 		Burton Bishop and John Verkirk, among others, helping in the sandbagging efforts.
32 of 95 		Men working to strengthen the dykes.
33 of 95 		Work being done to rebuild and clean up the land after flooding.
34 of 95 		Bracing the dykes on the Kootenay flats.
35 of 95 		A view of the Creston Flats in 1947.
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