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<br />$161,700 <br /> <br /> <br />THE FOUNTAIN RIVER FLOOD PROBLEM <br /> <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />Private Propertv <br /> <br />Residential $ 87,400 <br />Business and industrial 327,081 <br />Suburban Tracts. 105,280 <br />Privately'owned utit. 1,&00 <br />Railroads 246,.795 <br />Farm lands and crops 181,400 <br />Irrigation structures <br />and ditches 62.005 <br /> <br />Total Private $1,011,561 <br /> <br />Public Propertv <br /> <br />Streets, utili ties ,e . <br />channel works $612,586 <br />Bridges 374,599 <br />Miscellaneous public <br />property 35.000 <br /> <br />Total Private -'1.022.185 <br /> <br />Grand Total <br /> <br />A later tabulation of long-term Fountain <br /> <br />prorated on an annual basis was released <br /> <br />in 1951 (Reference 6), as follows: <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />Floodwater Damage <br />Destruction of land by bank cutting <br />Loss of crops, ~ldgs, fences, etc. <br />Damage to railroads, bridges, roads <br />Urban losses . . <br /> <br />Indirect. . . . . . . . . . ... . . <br /> <br />$2,033,746 <br />basin flood damages <br />by the same agency <br /> <br />Dollar Maqnitude <br /> <br />.$ 21,700 <br />24,600 <br />63,300 <br />16,600 <br />35.500 <br /> <br />Sediment Damage <br />Irrigation distribution <br />Farmland.. . . <br />Reservoirs. . . . . . . <br /> <br />. . . . <br /> <br />.$ 19,700 <br />20,600 <br />46.100 <br /> <br />systems <br /> <br />86.400 <br />Total Average Annual Damage $248,100 <br />This recurrent toll on the communities of the Foun~8in basin <br />has not, of course, gone unremarked, and over the past four <br />decades a number of public and semi-public protective works <br />designed to minimize it have been undertaken at various points <br />on the stream system as follows: <br />