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Show L M. Winsor, flood control en-eineer en-eineer who is in charge of Mt. Pleasant's flood control program, now under way announced this week that the finishing touches to the channel are progressing favorably, and that vv"rkors would soon be through with the downstream part of the work. "We are just putting the final touches on excavation on the channel from the railroad to iSanpitch," Mr. Winsor said. It has been a very difficult problem ! becaue there was no channel previously nothing but a thicket thick-et willows, brush, and trees. The upper basin at the mouth of South Fork is now complete; the bridge has been moved, and the gap in the dvke filed. We are rapidly bringing to a finish the main barrier, w here we are raising rais-ing the dvkes and spillway, and diverting 'the flood stream into (three parts. We have cleared !the right of way for the south lend excavation, and are now diverting di-verting the flood stream to the ! south." j Mr. Winsor said that he is re-! re-! questing the Boy Scouts to as-isume as-isume the responsibility of keep-jing keep-jing the flood channel through ! town clear of all rubbish and Idebries. He said also that he I hoped that people w ould stop the practice of throwing tra-h into the channel, since it was " serious flood haard. a S" |