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<br />page 42 <br /> <br />Rainfall measured 4 inches at At'lOod and Merino. <br />Gushingwater knocked out bridges" flooded highways and <br />made travel impossible in a broad areEL north ELnd ..'est of <br />Sterling. <br />Highway 113 to Peetz was closed lELst night but was <br />opened this morning to one-way traffic, the State Patrol <br />reported. No trucks were allowed on i.t, however. <br />Closed yesterday and still closed at 11 a.m. this <br />morning were U.S. 138 at Iliff, interstate 80S at Sterling <br />(to eastbound traffic), the Padroni road, N. 7th Ave., and <br />Sidney Ave. <br />"There is still much water we can't determine whether <br />bridges are st ill standing or have been washed out," a <br />Patrol spokesman waid this morning. "Water is receding <br />slowly." <br />Commissioner George Moore and high;ray superintendent <br />Cleo Luttrell left Sterling at 7: 30 a. m. today on an <br />inspection tour. <br />In three hours they were able to cover only a 12-mile <br />area north of Sterling. <br />In that area they counted 17 structures, including <br />bridges and tubes, that had been knock.ed out. <br />Highway crews were unable to start repair work this <br />morning because water was too high. 'I'hey were kept busy <br />posting "road closed" signs. <br />DITCHES BREAK <br />Water Commissioner Robert Littler said the rainfall <br />exceeded 8 inches north of Pioneer Park. <br />Flood situations were created by overflowing ditches. <br />Littler said North Sterling ditch overflowed at Desert <br />Village. That water flowed into Pawnee ditch and Dverflowed <br />it. <br />Pawnee water poured into Springdale ditch which broke <br />in Pioneer Park. <br />Sterling No. 1 ditch also overflowed. <br />Water from the ditches and rain water on fields poured <br />into Pioneer drainage ditch all night and today. <br />NO DRAINAGE <br />City street superintendent Ray McClanahan reported the <br />drainage ditch this morning was nearly 200 feet wide where <br />it crosses highway 138 north of Sterling. <br />"The terrific high water situation in Charmon:r, Whitcomb <br />addition and northwest Sterling will remain until the drainage <br />ditch starts going down," McClanahan said. <br />"That won't happen while water is still rolli:og in <br />off the fields west of town." <br />McClanahan said Franklin and Cleveland streets were <br />smothered by rushing waters, and huge lakes are standing in <br />Hamilton, Douglas and Phelps street areaS south of Main, fed <br />by water from adjacent fields. <br />Hundreds of basements and furnaces are under '.ater, he <br />said. <br />Raods to the city dump and the west water tower arebwashed out. <br />