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Taming the Kootenay
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Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
1 of 13 		The Holben combine on Reclamation Farm.
2 of 13 		Dredge in Porthill working on dyking the river.
3 of 13 		Machinery used to divert the Goat River into the Kootenay River.
4 of 13 		Men dyking the Kootenay River.
5 of 13 		Dredges were used to construct dykes on the Kootenay Flats.
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Huge scrapers working on the dyking of the flats.
7 of 13 		After the completion of the major portion of the dyking project in October of 1935.
8 of 13 		Harry Christenson with one of his scrapers repairing flood damage to the dykes.
9 of 13 		Filling sandbags on the Creston flats.
10 of 13 		People kept their machinery on top of the dykes or on higher ground during the floods.
11 of 13 		Dyking projects went past 1935.
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Widening of the Duck Lake outlet.
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