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Taming the Kootenay
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Men working to clean up the flats and prevent any further flooding.
19 of 31 		A wall of sandbags on the flats below Wynndel.
20 of 31 		Serving food to the men on the flats.
21 of 31 		Taking a lunchbreak while working on the flats to prevent the flooding.
22 of 31 		Duck Lake Reclamation officials reviewing plans for the project.
23 of 31 		High water threatened to breach the dykes in 1961; pictured here is District 10 in Idaho.
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Women standing in the flood waters
25 of 31 		Margaret Berg and her daughter Marion, bringing a snack out to the men combining on the flats.
26 of 31 		Boundary Dyke showing the rising creek and the seepage behind the dyke.
27 of 31 		Art Winters pulling a wheelbarrow.
28 of 31 		1941 Massey Harris combine arriving at the Creston Museum.
29 of 31 		Combining on the Christenson brothers' farm.
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Building dyke on Creston Dyking District.
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