Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 04, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday May 4, 1950 Page t or. Bromfield on flood control without scientific knowl on flood control it May seem presumptuous to ask or. Hurst Why full flood Protection would not be economically Feas As suggested in the fourth of his series of articles on con trolling May i commend to All flood sufferers and to or. Hurst and All interested engineers the Reading of Louis brom Field s live on the Edge of Paradise in the March 11 Issue of the Satur Day evening. Post. It would seem from Reading this article that there Are satisfactory solutions to flood problems. It took the great flood of "1913 to bring ohioans to do something about just let citizens become sufficiently aroused and there la be action aplenty we appreciate the inter National Angle to be hurdles but it would seem that . Citizens As Well As canadians affected by the flooding of the red River could match the interest of those ohioans in 1913 to the Point of creating a second Muski Ngum watershed conservancy District. Or. Bromfield says in the past taxpayers property owners and insurance companies Hayt spent billions of dollars in repair ing damages and in construction and maintaining and repairing vast dams and levees at the Mouths or Halfway Clown oui great Rivers when All the time i must have been easily evident even to a kindergarten child with Circle two with your beef girl. Enrol today. Square dance the Arthur Murray Way. 400 Portage ave. Phone 925294. Oier. Accoo dentist and Ait Ciares 2nd floor time bldg. Corner Portage and Hargrave phone 928 319 Winnipeg Brandon office Security bldg., 10th St. Steak a pile of Sand and a watering can that one does not Stop floods at the Bottoms Rivers but High on their tributaries and in forests and cow pastures. This obvious fact virtually the whole of our flood prevention work has been concentrated until now upon huge and vulnerable dams Anil levees far Down these dams will fill up with Silt and become useless and the great levees break and re tease augmented destruction ii May be fun for the engineers to build them and it May make a lot of Money for the contractors but such tactics Are immensely expensive to the. Long suffering Phyllis Field Cooper Xvi Nuipok tribute to mayor Bole sir Why should a Man such As our mayor or. Elswood Bole be attacked by the press in such a persistent manner Lor a statement which he would certainly never have made had he not been so exhausted from work and worry. Not Able to keep the flood Waters from his own Rome he has nevertheless worked Day and night to help his neighbors who might possibly be Able to save theirs. Or. Bole is a Fine intelligent person. I was going to say a swell and perhaps that expresses better what i mean. We in St. Vital Are proud to have him Tor our mayor and Only wish that More men of his calibre would take As much interest in Public affairs. Winnipeg fair play at a popular Price end look at these Low prices Safeway vegetables and fruits Are really fresh because of our method of handling. Check the values listed below. We be some outstanding buys this week Garden Patch Brand Resh Corn vacuum packed Golden kernels off the cob. Just add butter heat and Stref. At your grocer s How Fine foods of Canada limited Tec Umlah Ontario Pac Kiri of Green giant Brand peas and in blots Brand Corn flood control sir the Winnipeg free press is to be complimented on introducing i he question of the causes of the River floods. It should have discussion by people City i own and country with the View o considering what Steps can be Raken for future flood prevention. There was nothing so very unusual about the Snow and weather conditions this year that we May say it is unlikely to happen need As we study and go further into the matter we will probably each the conclusion that without proper preventive measures we shall have floods in greater fre Quency than known heretofore. The Rivers of this continent in the past did not flood As they have being doing in latter years. At the same time that the red River Over flowed its Banks the Miramichi in new Brunswick the Missouri in North and South Dakota were on the rampage and the Fraser threat ens disaster in British Columbia. Only a month or so ago the Ohio and i he Mississippi flooded Many Square Miles of territory creating havoc and bringing distress to hundreds of Homes. Thinking Back we will recall Many similar stories in preceding years. Every year in some or other of this continent Rivers burst their Normal Bounds causing considerable loss of life millions of dollars of damage and terrific relatively speaking floods Are recent history. In the past they did occur on anything like their present scale volume intensity or frequency. Floods came with the White Man with settlement with axe saw Cire and plough. In Broad terms recent floods Are Man made. The chief causes of floods Are in the fact that we have stripped the watersheds of their forests and the soil of its cover. We have interfered with the balance of nature and now we reap our Reward in the eruptions of Rivers and dust storms and erosion. When we Cut the Trees on the Mountainside the Snow is deprived of Shade and is expo Sci everywhere at once to the warming rays of the Spring Sun. It does not thaw gradually but Melis quickly to run off and join with the Waters of the lower exposed areas. With the breaking up and plough ing of Hillside and Plain the Leaf Mold and Root Fibre have Dis appeared. The soil in longer possesses the blotting paper like absorptive qualities to soak up and hold the water instead it rushes Down without restraint to the lower Levels to the River Valley. We have entirely disregarded the bal Ance of land and water. In its original or Normal state nature restrains the flow of wafers re leasing them gradually to run out no the streams. Without expand ing on this All important theme suffice it to say that any plan for the control of River flow must begin an the top that is in the watershed. To control or prevent floods in the Rod River Valley will necessitate beginning at its source in the Hills of Minnesota and in the areas whence Rise its tributaries great and Small the Pembina the Souris the Assiniboine Etc. The plan will require the combined knowledge and skill of the technicians in Many different Fields chiefly forestry soil conservation land engineering. Just As in the Tennessee Valley so Here the red River can be brought under control for the service of ail who live within its reach. F. A Nasoni de. Note the free press limit of 200 words for letters to the editor is waived to accommodate this comment on the flood problem. No Coffee for Dike builders sir soldiers go out to danger Points during floods and slave themselves Skinny. It they get any thanks for it no and much less do they get a cup of hot Coffee from the people they help and another thing what do the people do when the soldiers come on the scene they up shovels and let the soldiers do it and stand around with their hands in their pockets. Of boy it makes me mad. Winnipeg Soldier s wife. 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