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Taming the Kootenay
Location: Creston Valley, BC

 
The Klockman house during the dyking project.
19 of 94 		Men dyking the Kootenay River.
20 of 94 		Dredge used for building dykes along the Kootenay River.
21 of 94 		Dredges were used to construct dykes on the Kootenay Flats.
22 of 94 		Huge scrapers working on the dyking of the flats.
23 of 94 		A map of dykes along the Kootenay River
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After the completion of the major portion of the dyking project in October of 1935.
25 of 94 		View of the Creston Flats flooded in the spring of 1938.
26 of 94 		Flooding of agricultural land on the Creston Flats.
27 of 94 		Road looking out over Creston flats of beginnings of flood.
28 of 94 		Flood waters destroyed crops and damaged homes on the flats.
29 of 94 		Flooding of the farmland.
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Harry Christenson with one of his scrapers repairing flood damage to the dykes.
31 of 94 		A wall of planks, driven into the ground on the outside of the dykes, to deflect the river's water.
32 of 94 		Water rises along the dykes. Sandbags are being placed to strengthen the dykes.
33 of 94 		Plank boadwalks enabled workers to stay above the muddy ground.
34 of 94 		Filling sandbags on the flats.
35 of 94 		Filling sandbags.
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