BOARD00852

• Board Meeting Date: 7/10/1950
• Description: Table of Contents, Minutes and Resolutions. Volumes I and II of Transcription of Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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o~nel O~ t~. 'ortif10at10n O~..~, etra1~t.ne4 1t out to set
a rap1d flow beg1M1ztg about If, little oVer one-I:lal:t lIIUS nol'th
of the towll Of (tJ'alg 80 as to proteet our new halt lII11110a
dollar l:IJ.gh ,011(101 bu11dUg. We t'lU'fled 111 ott Uto sOllie lIlor.
01' these streams that ran througlltoltn. '$l.en. fro. IUghYa:r 40
aoutb ~l,ear 1;0 th,e r:l.ver. ~ey cnanged and,sllralghtened aJi4
widened the ohannel so that 111 had a very good drop thl'OUSh
there. However. no flood eae, no high water came. Apparently
the heav, snOWe eBJIle on grQund that wasn' t tro~en end 1.lloet of

that water went into the gt'o'Qnd." thereby sts.bll1.z1ng tl:1.
springe and stream tlow in the upper reaohes ot I'ort1fiosUon

Creek.

We were lucky on that.
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Again 1n the 1949 and 1950 w1ntEll", we had, l):'ett1 hetlVJ
snows in that area and anticipated the flood this lastsprlns.,
but no flood cS/lle. 1'he water wae amply taken care of by the
stab111tlng of the channel and ~e quick get-away s$ that the
i'own Board and Gomm18s1oDe~B ~81ttbat there was nO need of
going to the peat expense of Oree.t1ng a conservanoy dlstJ'lcll
including part Of the town ande01.lle areas outs1de ot town. and
guaranteeing about .136,,000 to $150,000 for flood bond 19tue
on that and building a wider channel. proba.blY 100 feet, whloh
was oonsidered unneceesa1'7.

Therefore, on the beet local engineering adv1ce we had

and SOme observatiQn ot two runoff seasons, we felt that it

would have betm imprac'Uoal tor us to go ahead. So atter dls-