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Taming the Kootenay
Images: Work

 
Widening of the Duck Lake outlet.
55 of 95 		High water threatened to breach the dykes in 1961; pictured here is District 10 in Idaho.
56 of 95 		Clarence Olson farm, Creston.
57 of 95 		Work trestle for the Libby Dam.
58 of 95 		The Libby Dam that would save all the farmlands from flooding and regulate water levels.
59 of 95 		View of the Kootenay Flats after the Libby Dam was put into place.
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Dragline brought in to work on the Creston Valley dykes.
61 of 95 		Harry Ostendorf and Bill Vigne loading logs on Harry's logging truck.
62 of 95 		Margaret Berg and her daughter Marion, bringing a snack out to the men combining on the flats.
63 of 95 		George Ramseier operating a 1941 Massey-Harris self-propelled combine, on his farm on Nick's Island.
64 of 95 		Archie Beatty (on tractor) and Ernie Geneau (on combine), combining wheat on George Ramseier's farm.
65 of 95 		Clipping from the Vancouver Sun, June 1948, showing the flood waters on the Creston flats.
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Boundary Dyke showing the rising creek and the seepage behind the dyke.
67 of 95 		Stacking sandbags in an effort to reinforce the dykes.
68 of 95 		Sandbags being used to build up the top of the dyke.
69 of 95 		A dyke showing tire tracks, made when a vehicle started sinking into the mud.
70 of 95 		Floodwaters rising along the dykes.
71 of 95 		Troughs inserted into holes in the dykes to funnel water out of the dykes.
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