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Taming the Kootenay
Location: Creston Valley, BC

 
R.B. Staples being stopped by a policeman.
73 of 94 		Police refusing vehicles access to the lower roads after the dykes broke.
74 of 94 		Dyking projects went past 1935.
75 of 94 		Clarence Olson farm, Creston.
76 of 94 		High water of the Kootenay River caused the dykes to slough away in some areas.
77 of 94 		View of the Kootenay Flats after the Libby Dam was put into place.
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Dragline brought in to work on the Creston Valley dykes.
79 of 94 		Harry Ostendorf and Bill Vigne loading logs on Harry's logging truck.
80 of 94 		Clipping from the Vancouver Sun, June 1948, showing the flood waters on the Creston flats.
81 of 94 		Stacking sandbags in an effort to reinforce the dykes.
82 of 94 		Flood waters across the width of the Creston Valley.
83 of 94 		Once the dykes broke, the entire Creston Valley was underwater.
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Looking north across the flats covered with flood water.
85 of 94 		A dyke showing tire tracks, made when a vehicle started sinking into the mud.
86 of 94 		Floodwaters rising along the dykes.
87 of 94 		Troughs inserted into holes in the dykes to funnel water out of the dykes.
88 of 94 		Art Winters pulling a wheelbarrow.
89 of 94 		Looking west from Creston
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