Show storms cause floods on beaver watershed llean rainstorms brainstorms rain storms on au august gust fl 9 and 12 on tho the beaver river watershed caused two damaging floods it is reported by blaine betenson supervisor of the fishlike fishlake Fish Fisli lake national forest according to henry boyter w water ater commissioner tile the flokas reached a maximum flow of 0 and cubic feet per second respectively the normal flow in deaver bearer creek at this time of tile the year Is about 35 cubic feet per the runoff from tuesdays flood Is the largest since 1936 when a destructive flood reached a crest of about 1100 cs c s two bridges and sections of the road were washed out in three creeks causing road damage of about according to I ivan walker state road foreman who investigated quiets quick action by beaver city employees in dislodging fallen trees prevented damage dabag a to the city dam dain and pipe line according to homer thompson mayor of deaver deader water was turned out of irrigation canals at the mouth of beaver canyon by water commissioner inis to avoid tilling filling them up with silt from the heavy laden flood waters the greatest damage was wag caused by the loss of soil on the watershed through erosion tile supervisor said in past year the density of the vegetative cover has been greatly lessened by overuse over use uso by too many grazing animals adjustments in use by both livestock and deer and by range re seeding has been stepped up in favor of establishing reestablishing re ro the forage plants in ill order to better regulate the stream flow and thereby protect the water supplies for culinary use powei development ands and irrigation and at the same time provide increased forage tor for grazing animals fortunately much ot of tho the deaver beaver river watershed la Is covered bya by a good stand of timber organized tiro fire protection and regulated timber cutting have been in effect tor for more than 40 years so that damage to the watershed f rom from this source was prevented mr air betenson stated |