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Show PART OP A CANAL IS WASHED AWAY WATER BREAKS FROM THE DAVIS & WEBER CANAL AND A LARGE SECTION OF THE CONCRETE STRUCTURE IS CARRIED INTO 1 THE RIVER FLOOD FOUR FEET DEEP AT THE POWER PLANT NEAR RIVE R DA L E I The recent co!d snap earned considerable con-siderable damage to ihe Davis and Weber Counties Canal company's waterway, wa-terway, near the power plant at Rivet Riv-et dale, bj causing an overflow of water wa-ter which undermined the concrete structure an, washed it away to the her river. The canal had been filled to Its capacity ca-pacity to furnish the largest possible J flow of water for the final test of the I great wheels and other machinei of J the Rlverdale power plant Frldav when the sudden fall of temperature froze the water An effort was mode to release some of the Ice bv cutting It from the canal with the result that the canal clogged Immediately above the Intake to the power plant, dam-mins dam-mins the stream an.l sending a larj;e flow of water over the side of the canals. 1 As the water came' ffUfhiDf 0Tpr tD concrete to the river befo the earth I w.i rapidly washed away and the (Mile concrete canal for a distance 01 about 120 ieet was undcrminevfl an. ca n led I O the rn er TIih country in the immediate Vi-olnitj Vi-olnitj Of ihe break was soon inun- I Ulated and great gulleys were cut to the Weber river. The flood reached the power plant, hut no damage was done A workman work-man sav s that the stream was fully four feet deep. It was diverted so that no damage was done to either! j the buildings or the machinery, An estimate of th damace cannot bo given until such time as an inves- 1 tlgatlon can be made. The canal wll be repaired at the earliest possible moment and water j again turned in. |