Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-05-18 | Page 1 | Rain Barrels Will Prevent Floods, Claim

Rain Barrels Will Prevent Floods Claim NEW ORLEANS May Ia IS i. i By Tho The Associated Press Suggestions Suggestions for con con- control control control of oC floods In the Mississippi sippi river valley have ranged from proposals to catch all the rain water In barrels to more and better levees Persons unacquainted with the nature of or the immensity of or the problem have been re responsible re- re responsible responsible for some Borne These have poured in by mall mal telegraph and other other- otherwise otherwise wise to Secretary ot of Com Com- Commerce Commerce merce Hoover er army engineers and to the river Mississippi Mississippi river j-river ver commission One man mOan nian proposed that an are enormous fleet of ot steamboats bo he concentrated at the head ot or navigation on tho the MissEs MissEs- Mississippi MIssissIppi sippi when the next flood threat appears With stern paddles turning full tull speed the boats boals would move down the tho river pushing tho the crest along and equalizing it 11 Incidental IncIdental- Incidentally ly hy this man says Jays the speed of ot the river current would be greatly accelerated d and tho the water soon would be pushed out Into the tho Gulf Gult of ot Mexico Another man advocates that great holes bo be bored in the river bed to take up the sur sur- surplus surplus plus pius of ot water wlter and allow it to tobe tobe tobe be absorbed into the ground Tho Thee rain barrel proposal would havo have inhabitants of ot the tho Mississippi valley alley prevent floods flood by keeping tho the water from the tho river except as they choose to empty the barrels He lie did not say where there the tho barrels required for such a scheme would be procured Still another suggestion is that the river be filled with huge lUge electrical driven tur tur- turbines turbInes bines hines which would drive the tho water swiftly to the gulf gult much in the same manner as tho the steamboat proposal