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Show ENGINEER TALKS REGARDING DAMS Says Court! Would Have to Be Appealed To Under the law and the rulea and regulations of the office the atate engineer en-gineer muat pass upon tha qu eat ion of dams which are primarily constructed fur diversion of water or the storage of water. The law read a thus: "Duplicate plana, drawlnga and specifications spe-cifications for any dam above ten feet In eight, across the natural channel of a running stream, or of any dam Intended In-tended to retain water above ten feet In height, ahall be aubmltted to the atate engineer for his approval, who shall examine auch plans, drawings and specifications, and, if he approves the same, he ahall return one copy of each auch plana, drawings and a pec if tea -tiona, with hla approval, to the party or psrties submitting the same and file the other in hla office. If the atate engineer en-gineer disapproves any of such plana, drawlnga or specifications, he shall return re-turn the same, with hla reason for auch disapproval.1 Asked today what might be dona regarding re-garding the removal of dams In a stream. State Engineer R. K. Caldwell said: "This office could take action only If anyone had constructed a dam contrary con-trary to the law and the rules and regulations of the state engineer's office of-fice since the organisation of the of flee tn 1903. The state engineer would then be interested, but the courts would. In all probability, have to be appealed to. "As to the nulhorlty of the atate engineer en-gineer to arbitrarily destroy a dam. It la open to question tinleas it is alleged formally that such dam Is a menace." |