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Show LIONS CHARGE CITY DADS WITH FLOOD CONTROL Responsibility for protection of the City of Milford from flash-flood runoff waters was tossed in the city council lap this week, when the local Lions Club flood committee pointed out dangers of the present runoff run-off channels. Milford has suffered several major floods with the Latest one, in 1951, sending thousands of tons of water rushing down Main street and inundating res- j idential areas in the lower sections sec-tions of town. Lion President Delmer Kirk, acting for the club, urg-ed the city council to "immediately take such action as is necessary to assure Milford residents and business men that they will never again have to barricade their doors against flood waters." wat-ers." Accompanied by the club president, William Hendrick-son, Hendrick-son, engineer, and D. E. Kirk, Mayor Ray Kizer and Wes Bolton, Bol-ton, city streets councilman, inspected in-spected the northwest desert section where Mr. Hondrickson pointed out that a few days work with ground - moving equipment would change' the present drainage channel, diverting di-verting flood waters into an old channel and routing them north of Milford in the reservoir at five-mile dam. i "It scorns foolish to me," Mayor Kizer said, "to divert flood waters from northwest of town, sending them southwest, then east, then back north again. Such a routing is invit- , ing disaster, and Mr. Bolton and I have given the Lions Club as- surance that the city council will do everything possible to protect the city by keeping that runoff water north of town, where it should be." Mr. Kirk pointed out that a grave danger to the community exists "at this moment." Last week a cloudburst in the Frisco Mountains west of town filled the drainage channels and "Hidden "Hid-den Lake," a man-made reservoir reser-voir near the northwest city limits. Following this on Sunday evening another cloudburst struck in the Frisco Mountains, and additional tons of water were added to the Hidden Lake level; then on Monday evening a heavy rain in the hills just west of town channeled most. I of the runoff into the same I washes. "If we have another cloudburst cloud-burst in the same area within the next week," Mr. Kirk said, "there doesn't seem to be any wa to keep the water off Main street." |