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Show VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OUR STREETS AND WATER DITCIIES In general the streets should be higher than the water ditches. There are a few places where it may be impossible to put the ditches lower than the roads, but these exceptions should be kept at a minimum. Many engineers have sneeringly called our streets "water ditches" because in time of rains or floods or breaks the roads in many parts are flooded and washed with the uncontrolled waters. With the ditches lower than the streets, which gently slope to the ditches, the waters run down the ditches, at least what the ditches can hold. The eternal problem of replacing earth washed out of the road is thus reduced to the practical minimum. During the time that we cannot can-not oil our streets we should be getting the streets high enough to stay when the time comes that we may oil them. As a principle, the streets should be made higher than the ditches. . Signed, John T. Woodbury, Jr. I , |