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Taming the Kootenay
Images: Buildings & Structures

 
Homes and businesses along Goat River bottom flooded.
19 of 36 		Work trestle for the Libby Dam.
20 of 36 		The Libby Dam that would save all the farmlands from flooding and regulate water levels.
21 of 36 		View of the Kootenay Flats after the Libby Dam was put into place.
22 of 36 		The Ryckman house at the West Creston ferry, 1948. There were 24 feet of water at the ferry.
23 of 36 		Margaret Berg and her daughter Marion, bringing a snack out to the men combining on the flats.
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Pump installations on Reclamation Dyking District.
25 of 36 		Hunting lodge of an American duck hunting club.
26 of 36 		Remains of a dragline on a Creston Dyking District dyke.
27 of 36 		Wynndel Pumphouse
28 of 36 		Wynndel pumping installations
29 of 36 		Pump, located alongside Boundary Dyke.
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A new pump recently installed at the north end of the Reclamation Dyking District.
31 of 36 		Pumphouse at the north end of Reclamation Dyking District
32 of 36 		Granary on Duck Lake Road
33 of 36 		Looking east towards Creston, from Bob Maxwell's boat.
34 of 36 		Farms at Wynndel under water
35 of 36 		Grazing land on Nick's Island.
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