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Show Saturday Flood Hits Canyon Roads, And Highway 91 And the rain came. That is one particular storm came across ac-ross the upper reaches of Dry Canyon and Second Left Hand Canyon Saturday afternoon, bringing a deluge of muddy water cascading down those canyons as red as government ink. The flood out of Dry Canyon Can-yon washed rocks and debris on the Parowan Canyon road at the mouth of the canyon, which necessitated the use of state road ( equipment from the Parowan Shed to open the road and keep it open for a period of time. As it was a number of cars full of people coming from the canyon were held up for up to an hour waiting for the waters to recede. re-cede. This flood joined the one out of the First Left Hand canyon in the mouth of the canyon to almost fill the breakwater on the south edge of town and then flood the highway from the top of the Glen Holy-oak Holy-oak farm to the Watson Adams Ad-ams property. And some farm land north of the highway got its regular treatment of red mud and water, along with Highway 91 for about a mile. The big flood which ripped the Five Mile and the city water system several years ago, almost done away with the old breakwater channel through the South Field, and later floods has about finished finish-ed it. As a result when present pres-ent flood waters hit the top of the field, they are forced to take to the street running out to Highway 91 and the open land south and west of the old channel. And it goes down the barrow pit of "91" gathering the entire en-tire stream in the next 40 rods when all gets into the borrow pit. This has been filled up over the years, with little or no attention from the highway high-way department until the waters wa-ters spread out onto the road for quite a distance. Additional road equipment worked along this stretch of road Saturday afternoon in an effort to keep the heavy traffic traf-fic moving, and although there was not too much of a bottleneck, bottle-neck, cars which came through the flood waters, were spattered spat-tered with red mud. The water finally hits a blockade and goes through the fence onto the Watson Adams property, and eventually some of it reaches the old home there. " - |