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Taming the Kootenay

 
Looking north from Boundary Dyke across the Piper Farm.
91 of 217 		The break in the dyke at the Goat River diversion.
92 of 217 		The break in the Goat River diversion.
93 of 217 		Looking south down Reclamation Road in West Creston.
94 of 217 		Road to Creston from West Creston near the West Creston ferry.
95 of 217 		Flood waters erode land.
96 of 217
Filling sandbags on the Creston flats.
97 of 217 		The dykes collapse as the flood waters recede.
98 of 217 		Building the forms for the sandbag walls.
99 of 217 		Water floods the old Goat River Channel, coming in from the north side of the diversion.
100 of 217 		Men passing sandbags to thestack on the right, along the inner side of the dykes.
101 of 217 		False Mouth, between the Kootenay River and the old Goat River channel, flooded with water.
102 of 217
Placing sandbags along the dykes.
103 of 217 		The Goat River breaking through the 1935 diversion.
104 of 217 		Bracing the dykes against seepage.
105 of 217 		Creston Review reports the results of the 1948 flood and the repair work that was going to be done.
106 of 217 		Dykes that were leaking under pressure, being reinforced on both sides.
107 of 217 		Sandbagging efforts to prevent flooding.
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