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Taming the Kootenay
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Guy Constable on a farm on the flats with his Model A.
1 of 45 		Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
2 of 45 		The Holben combine on Reclamation Farm.
3 of 45 		Water rises along the dykes. Sandbags are being placed to strengthen the dykes.
4 of 45 		Filling sandbags.
5 of 45 		A line of men working passing sandbags quickly to stop seepage.
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Sandbag wall reinforcing the dyke.
7 of 45 		Burton Bishop and John Verkirk, among others, helping in the sandbagging efforts.
8 of 45 		A view of the Creston Flats in 1947.
9 of 45 		Filling sandbags that were used to brace the dykes and stop them from cracking.
10 of 45 		Men working to clean up the flats and prevent any further flooding.
11 of 45 		Sandbagging and reinforcing the dykes to stop the flooding.
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Another view of the sandbagging efforts.
13 of 45 		Sandbagging on the Creston flats.
14 of 45 		A wall of sandbags on the flats below Wynndel.
15 of 45 		High water threatened to breach the dykes in 1961; pictured here is District 10 in Idaho.
16 of 45 		Clarence Olson farm, Creston.
17 of 45 		View of the Kootenay Flats after the Libby Dam was put into place.
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