Show after several years of quiet mill creek Is again on the rampage and threatens to break through its banks and overflow into the heart of moab during the past two weeks a series of hoods have coursed down the creek tearing out rip rapping flood fences and other barricades that in the past had been built to hold the hood waters in check at the bryan lov dale M 0 A hobert son D L goudelock and J T learning places the floods have widened the creek taking out rip rapping that had been put in at a cost of hundreds of dollars the floods have done the greatest damage at bends in the creflo where much valuable land has been washed away at the lotheridge LoTe ridge place only a low bank separates the creek from the bead of the arroyo which flows through the heart of town should a flood breace through into the arroyo hundreds and perhaps thousands of dollars in damage would be sustained many property owners are preparing to construct new rip rapping and it is probable that in several places the creek will be straightened |