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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 44 		Sandbagging and reinforcing the dykes to stop the flooding.
20 of 44 		Another view of the sandbagging efforts.
21 of 44 		Sandbagging on the Creston flats.
22 of 44 		A wall of sandbags on the flats below Wynndel.
23 of 44 		Sandbags being stacked in wooden frames along the inside of the dykes.
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Bob Maxwell's boat, used as transportation on the flats during floods.
25 of 44 		R.B. Staples being stopped by a policeman.
26 of 44 		Police refusing vehicles access to the lower roads after the dykes broke.
27 of 44 		Duck Lake Reclamation officials reviewing plans for the project.
28 of 44 		Dyking projects went past 1935.
29 of 44 		Clarence Olson farm, Creston.
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High water of the Kootenay River caused the dykes to slough away in some areas.
31 of 44 		Harry Ostendorf and Bill Vigne loading logs on Harry's logging truck.
32 of 44 		George Ramseier operating a 1941 Massey-Harris self-propelled combine, on his farm on Nick's Island.
33 of 44 		Archie Beatty (on tractor) and Ernie Geneau (on combine), combining wheat on George Ramseier's farm.
34 of 44 		Boundary Dyke showing the rising creek and the seepage behind the dyke.
35 of 44 		Stacking sandbags in an effort to reinforce the dykes.
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