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Show lootl danger seen i Nobble Creed the invitation of Spring-city Spring-city officials, members of Utah county commission A P invited to make a tour of ft le Creek east of the city i Monday,- to determine j Jars from flooding. '9e lowing the tour it was Og; illy agreed by the county lission to get men on the s soon as possible, to clear reek of debris which might t in flooding. king the tour were, Mayor Haymond, Councilmen , j, Friel and M. D. Peay; e Curtis, road supervisor; Bliss, county supervisor 3. Marion Hinckley, Rulon Nicholes and Sterling Jones, representing the commission, and the county surveyor, Vern Green. It was1 pointed out that Cox bridge, also called Mapleton-Hobble Mapleton-Hobble Creek bridge had to be replaced following its washout in the big flood year 1952. Its channel is brushy and in places has debris. A single log in such a channel chan-nel can catch smaller debris, causing the stream to go out of its banks. It then tends to uproot up-root trees with hanging roots, and swolen by more trees rip out its banks. In the 1952 flood, Hobble Creek destroyed a home in this area which had to be rebuilt. Recommended County Surveyor Green said in 1944 the Army Engineers had recommended that the brush be cleared for 100 feet on both sides of the creek and bulldozed out to form a flood channel above the regular lower channel. chan-nel. At Spring Creek-Mapleton diversion di-version dam, which washed out in 1952, the county surveyor noted that the "flow line can't be lowered. It has no high control con-trol gate." So in flood, it couldn't be pulled out to let the water run freely down. Above this dam, the channel in several places was clogged by brush, the water rising above it and dropping down in miniature dam. At Kelly's Grove, chunks of heavy firewood were bobbing in the stream below a bridge replaced re-placed after washout in 1952. This bridge has two six-foot culvert pipes, and could be quickly clogged if logs lodged against it, County Commission Chairman Sterling Jones, noted. |