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<br /> <br />OOlS~!6 <br /> <br />C;;-:9~ <br />~lt. <br />i/J'i/7 <br />jl} 11 <br />,a'c.:;:0 <br /> <br />_-p.',> <br />1>'.1\< <br />~ <br /> <br />~~Zf; <br /> <br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> <br />STERLIN~~The Lower South Platte Water Conservancy district <br />~ <br /> <br />has launched a detailed study of floods on the Pawnee creek <br /> <br /> <br />In Logan county, Eric Wendt, secretary-manager, said here <br /> <br />today. <br />A reconnaissance flight over the watershed of the Pawnee <br />Thursday Is a part of the Initial steps In the study. <br />There have been seven relatively large Pawnee floods <br />recorded, Wendt pointed out. He added that damage from the <br />June 15, 1965 Pawnee flood was estimated at $2,714,000. <br />While preliminary surveys have Indicated that It Is <br />feasible to construct adequate flood control Improvements for <br />the Pawnee, studies to date hWve not Indicated sufficient <br />damage to qualify for flood control under existing criteria <br />for federal projects. <br />"This does not alter the fact that facllltles In the <br />Pawnee watershed have suffered major damage," Wendt added. <br />The Atwood and Sterling communities are particularly vulnerable <br />to Pawnee flOOds. Wendt said that preliminary review Indlcetes <br />that flood control for the Pawnee must result from a combination <br />of upstream dams and channel improvements. <br />In Its research, the conservancy district will reach <br />back to a period aome 60 years ago when the first efforts to <br />develop a .control program for the Pawnee were launched by the <br />Sterling Promotion and Irrigation company, an organization <br />which Included men who were leaders In many of the early <br />Irrigation, agricultural, Industrial and community projects <br /> <br />~i <br /> <br />which developed the Sterling community of today. <br /> <br />Included <br /> <br />were W.C. Harris, G. B. Goddard, George W. McClain, A.G. <br />Buchanan, H. Herbert White, S.E. Naugle, G.C. Brown, H.E. <br />Munson, T.F. Henderson, George A. Henderson, W.S. Jenkins, <br />C.B. Timberlake, Senator McCreary, F.H. Blair, W.B. Giacomini, <br />Tom Padronl, E.R. Fortner, E.E. Armour and J.p. Dillon. <br />