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Show u WHY NOT OUR OWN FLOOD PROTECTION? As a suggestion to be taken for what it may be worth, why could not the flood waters from the wash which carried the main stream down to Milford's most important streets be diverted at the south part of tfcjwn, and the water be directed to the flats east of town? At present, one fairly small culvert is all we have to handle the msh from cloudbursts or heavy Tains, and it was far insufficient and the flooding of 'the pavement and the street back of the station has resulted. People who have lived here for fifteen, twenty or twenty-five years, (and this period of residence makes one an old-timer in Milford), say that they have known several such floods as we have just gone through, one in 1909 being of even greater proportions. We will have more of them unless a drainage ditch or some sort of artificial passage is constructed to use in diverting the water past the town and directly into the Beaver . River channel. o |