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Taming the Kootenay
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Engineers on the Alberta BC Exploration Company houseboat.
1 of 31 		Constructing the dyke at Reclamation Farm
2 of 31 		Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
3 of 31 		Kootenay River at Bonner's Ferry.
4 of 31 		Surveyors building dykes on the flats.
5 of 31 		Men dyking the Kootenay River.
6 of 31
Water rises along the dykes. Sandbags are being placed to strengthen the dykes.
7 of 31 		Plank boadwalks enabled workers to stay above the muddy ground.
8 of 31 		Filling sandbags on the flats.
9 of 31 		Filling sandbags.
10 of 31 		Men working to strengthen the dykes and sandbag against the rising water.
11 of 31 		Pounding planks vertically into the ground to deflect the river's water away from the dykes.
12 of 31
Sandbags and wood structures brace the dykes against breaking.
13 of 31 		Burton Bishop and John Verkirk, among others, helping in the sandbagging efforts.
14 of 31 		Men working to strengthen the dykes.
15 of 31 		Bracing the dykes on the Kootenay flats.
16 of 31 		Bracing the dykes against seepage.
17 of 31 		Dykes that were leaking under pressure, being reinforced on both sides.
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