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Show ri n e f! I IUUU anger Flood plains are rich and fertile and, consequently, ideal for agriculture. Historically, Historical-ly, civilizations have flourished , along the great rivers of the world. , The ancient E gyptians lived upon up-on one of the largest flood plains on earth along the Nile River. The rich soils were ideal for producing food. As in other parts of the world, Utah has fertile flood plains that have beckoned agricultural use. The rivers coursing their way through flood plains are important import-ant to wildlife. A variety of a-quatic a-quatic organisms inhabit the rivers riv-ers and are interdependent upon , each other for their survival. Vegetation along the rivers prevent pre-vent erosion and provide dwelling areas and cover for wildlife that live close to the water. When rivers are channeled, the aquatic resource is severely damaged; and many of its life forms are lost. Vegetation along streams is removed and with it, the wildlife that depend upon it for survival. What's left is a rapid moving, unnatural body of water. It's a philospophical impasse: aesthetics versus agriculture and . flood control., But it needn't be. There is only a short period of the year when floods cause problems. prob-lems. The problems can be solved to the benefit of all. The landowner land-owner looks to the river' for utilitarian purposes, while the fisherman and environmentalist look at it for aesthetics and recreation. rec-reation. The landowner often dumps old cars, cement blocks and other large objects along the stream bank to stablize the edge and serve as energy absorbers. But these are unaesthetic solutions to the problem. Large boulders and'other natural materials may be used to blend in with the natural terrain ter-rain and stablize eroded stream banks. Solutions to the problem, then, need to be more permanent perman-ent by nature, giving the resource an opportunity to stablize and become be-come productive again. Nonstructrual flood control devices de-vices allow planners to affect channels without altering the stream's course and destroying habitat. The parkway concept is one of the most popular of these means. This concept is simply flood plain management. Diking and terracing terrac-ing is done along the banks to hold flood waters n the one year of, perhaps, every 25 when floods occur. People can use the area in all of the other years that there are no floods. Tourists and visitors can camp, fish, boat, hike, ride horses and otherwise enjoy it. " Such a concept has been in the works in Utah's Provo-Jordan River Parkway project. Natural IUoOIT 4 Control Viewed i vegetation along the stream requires re-quires no removal. Other areas require some changes to dike, terrace and incorporate the planned plan-ned parkway atmosphere. Nothing is done to the stream channel itself. In short, this concept is a denial of uses along streams that can be harmed in times of flooding. flood-ing. The cities of Logan and Og-den Og-den have discussed such a concept for the Logan, Weber and Ogden rivers. Unfortunately, many of Utah's streams have already been altered. al-tered. Engineers determined the best way to get rid of flooding problems was to straighten out river channels, allowing water to run in a straight line at a higher velocity. This, it was thought, would get rid of the water faster. fast-er. The theory was based on studies of flumes and canals--not natural streams. This is known now to be at best -a partial solution and at worst, a disasterflooding property further down stream. In fact, one tactic now used to control waters wat-ers is to allow the water to pour back into the old meandering routes where it can be sotred. Dikes along streams also can create as many problems as they were meant to solve. Whenwater runs over the dikes, it can't bet back into the stream, thus causing caus-ing a man-made flood of sorts. Once a river is cnanneled, it will eventually return to a meandering me-andering course. That is the natural way, and only periodic rechanneling at a high cost can keep it from occurring. The means of reclaming chan neled rivers must often be done' by structural methods, although parkways are possible in some waters. Along rocky, mountainous moun-tainous areas with steep gradients, gradi-ents, altered streams left alone for as long as 200 years may still show no signs of recovery. Reclamation costs are high. That's why in the future, flood control should be carefully planned. plan-ned. Non-structural methods should be implemented. Larry Noble Opens Office Larry Noble, MD, MPH, recently opened his office at 777 N. 500 Wino 204 in Provo. Dr. Noble, hiswife.Sibyl, and his four children reside at 664 E. 445 S. in Orem. He moved here from Portland Oregon to open an office of ophthalmology, including examination, treatment and surgery of the eye. He also handles contact lenses. Dr. Noble received his B.A. from the University of Oregon, and his M,D. from the University of Oregon Medical school. He interned and had general surgery residency in the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake in 1966. In 1970, he took up residency at Aerospace Medicine at Harvard. From 1971 to 1974 he had his ophthalmology residency at the Devers Memorial Mem-orial Eye Clinic in Portland, Ore. Mt. Bell Assists Forest Rangers With Vaterpipe P orest Rangers aren't only interested in-terested in saving treees, some are interested in saving you money. mon-ey. One conservation-minded ranger, ran-ger, Brent McBeth,SaltlakeDis-trict-Wasatch National Forest, recently developed an idea which has already saved taxpayers thousands of dollars. , McBeth is responsible for laying lay-ing underground waterpipe from mountain springs to forest service-maintained water throughs in the foothills. In the past, according to McBeth, Mc-Beth, laying the plastic pipe has been a big job. "It usually takes a work crew with shovels two weeks to bury one pipeline over miles of rocky terrain. "The cost of laying the pipe six inches underground runs into the thousands of dollars." And at that depth it is subject to rodent and frost damage." Last summer, while in route from Salt Lake to theStansbury Mountain RAnge, McBeth moticed a MountainBell bulldozer plowing cable underground. The phone company uses a special plow which buries telephone cable with minimum disturbance to the Want a paint that's really scrubbable? 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