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Show LOCAL LIONS URGE FLOOD PREVENTION; TO MEET WITH UNION PACIFIC HEADS ON $50,000 DRAIN DITCH PROPOSITION In an effort to forestall extensive damage to Milford from possible cloud burst floods this season, the Lions Club at their luncheon meeting yesterday voted to appoint a committee to meet with the town board and the officials of the Union Pacific Rail Road to learn' if measures could be taken to prevent a recurrence of the damage that resulted from a flood in Milford two years ago. I" Senator George Jefferson put the proposal before the Lions stating that during the past week there have been four small cloud bursts' in the 'region of the Big Wash where previous floods have originated. He pointed out that from twenty years experience with periodic floods in Milford he had noted not-ed that summer cloud burst floods occurred after winters of light snow fall, such as the past winter and that conditions point to the posibility of a severe flood this summer. ' ." Plan Drain Senator Jefferson remanded the members that following the flood of 1929 the Union Pacific Railroad had sent its surveyors to study conditions and that they had reported that a ditch starting at the Frisco Branch about two miles west of town and extending ex-tending across the basin so that it would cross south of the aviation feild and empty in the Beaver river would divert the flood water and save Milford Mil-ford from the danger and property loss that has resulted fsomi previous floods. The cost of the ditch was estimated es-timated at $50,000. However, after the report of the surveyors and negociations between land owners and the railroad company for the right of way for the ditch, nothing further was done on the matter. mat-ter. " Water Turned j Senator Jefferson stated at the meeting that the town was justified in urging the building of the drain by the railroad as it is the Frisco branch built without adequate provision for drainage that backs the flood waters into the streets, homes and business buildings of Milford. As Mr. Jefferson explained it, the floods originated from cloud bursts in the Big Wash. The waters would naturally na-turally flow south east and avoid the town, but the bhilding of the Frisco branch diverted the natural course of the floods swinging the waters back toward the town. The culvert in the main line'south of town is insufficient to carry'off the diverted water which finds its' only outlet down the main street of Milford. 1929 Flood Damage i The flood of 1929 damaged practic- ally every place of business in town, and tied up business for ten days while the? merchants were attempting to remove from their stores deposits of. mud in some cases two feet deep. In light of the frequent recurrence of such floods, the Lions voted to urge to building of the ditch as soon as possible and appointed Senator Jefferson Jeffer-son to head a committee to represent them to the town board and the railroad. |