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<br /> <br /> <br />GRAND JUNCTION DAILY SENTINEL <br />Friday, June 7, 1957 <br /> <br />Little Damage Done <br />So Far By Rivers; <br /> <br />Some Seepage <br /> <br />Flood conditions in the Grand <br />Junction area continue to keep city <br />and county workmen on the job but <br />so far the Gunnison and Colorado <br />Rivers have done little damage. <br /> <br />City trucks are dumping rock <br />and dirt along the inside of the <br />rock wall at Riverside Park, and <br />the flow of water there has been <br />diverted back into the river. <br />Water will have to rise another <br />foot before homes in the area are <br />endangered, although most base- <br />ments in Crawford Addition have <br />been seeped full. <br /> <br />Across the river and north of <br />the Grand Ave. br idge. Caun ty <br />crews are again at work on the dike <br />between the river and Connecticut <br />Lakes area. Water is averaging two <br />feet below the dike top, about the <br />amount that the county raised the <br />dike. <br /> <br />Another crew is dumping large <br />rocks in at the south approach to <br />the Gunnison River bridge, where a <br />large whirlpool was washing away <br />the bank. A six.inch rise in the <br />river would flood the road in spots. <br />but the AEC compound is completely <br />walled in now and no difficulty is <br />expected there. <br /> <br />About a mile south of the com. <br />pound. at the Charles Huffaker place. <br />water continued to flow through the <br />orchard and isolate the house and <br />sheds on an island. <br /> <br />12 <br />