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Taming the Kootenay
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Looking north from Boundary Dyke across the Piper Farm.
91 of 213 		The break in the dyke at the Goat River diversion.
92 of 213 		The break in the Goat River diversion.
93 of 213 		Looking south down Reclamation Road in West Creston.
94 of 213 		Road to Creston from West Creston near the West Creston ferry.
95 of 213 		Flood waters erode land.
96 of 213
Filling sandbags on the Creston flats.
97 of 213 		The dykes collapse as the flood waters recede.
98 of 213 		Building the forms for the sandbag walls.
99 of 213 		Water floods the old Goat River Channel, coming in from the north side of the diversion.
100 of 213 		Men passing sandbags to thestack on the right, along the inner side of the dykes.
101 of 213 		False Mouth, between the Kootenay River and the old Goat River channel, flooded with water.
102 of 213
Placing sandbags along the dykes.
103 of 213 		The Goat River breaking through the 1935 diversion.
104 of 213 		Bracing the dykes against seepage.
105 of 213 		Creston Review reports the results of the 1948 flood and the repair work that was going to be done.
106 of 213 		Dykes that were leaking under pressure, being reinforced on both sides.
107 of 213 		Sandbagging efforts to prevent flooding.
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