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In the event that the cost justifies, now the <br />Hoyt construction is apparently as cheap as any <br />other method, it would do far more good to spend <br />the money there and utilize the 3500 feet annually <br />for the pump area because it will maintain 3,000 <br />acres of land that is not going to be maintained <br />unless something like that is done, and return <br />that much to the economy and still have the flood <br />control with less damage than you would have carry- <br />ing it clear to the river because of intervening <br />bridges and roads subject to being destroyed during <br />particularly high floods. Of course, gentlemen, <br />you had a tremendous flood in 1935 down Bijou <br />Creek. It was beyond comprehension. I believe <br />the Bureau people are used to working with big <br />numbers and yet the Bijou flood, for about a <br />period of ten or fifteen or twenty minutes reached <br />a flow of 285,000 second - feet. Something that's <br />just unheard of. Unless someone had seen it they <br />couldn't comprehend the destructive force of that <br />thing down the Bijou Creek. After it reached the <br />river it dissipated within 40 or 50 miles and the <br />rest of the damage was very light. It was.a <br />wall -type flowing stream." <br />MR. GILDERSLEEVE: "Are there any other comments as to the feasi- <br />bility of the Hoyt Reservoir ?" <br />MR. H. DAVIS: "In regard to Bijou Creek, I think Joe Barrett <br />pointed out that it's partly a flood control prob- <br />lem and in part a regulation of sediment if you <br />have channel aggradation due to a main stem reser- <br />voir and it keeps the natural floods flushing , <br />sediment out. But if there is any other way to <br />approach Bijou and control it, any alternatives, <br />I think the Corps of Engineers indicated in its <br />letter report too that they intend to study some <br />other ways of controlling Bijou. I think our <br />position is that if there is any cheaper, more <br />effective, way of dealing with Bijou, whoever <br />does it or whether it's a combination of the water- <br />shed treatment program under Public Law 566 or <br />something else, we would be interested in it." <br />MR. GILDERSLEEVE: "This type of analysis hasn't been made for <br />the Bijou dykes, for instance, or for the Wiggins <br />-45- <br />