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Show : ANTA CLARA CREEK FLOODS OVER BANKS The effect cf an overgraz-d and dovegitated laud, is being experienced exper-ienced by CC'C Company 5S5. Gun-lock. Gun-lock. Utah in the form of early pring floods. The rapidly rising Santa Clara river is requiring constant con-stant repair of submerged roadways, road-ways, and the building of sand bag 1-vios to maintain the original channel of the stream, reports John De.Iong. captain. Gunlock C'CC camp. "The water was so high." declares de-clares the captain, that it required -even hc.urs for the CCC truck to make a round trip ' of fifty-six miles to St. George. It is nec-;s-ary to ford th"1 river thirteen imes in eipht miles, most of the ".imp was spent in drying the rooter roo-ter and pulling out nf the swollen stream, but a portion was devoted to rtscueing civilian vehicles stranded in mid-stream. |