Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1936 — Page 14

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FLOODS CAN BE PREVENTED, SOIL CHIEF DECLARES Control Projects Outlined by Experts, Pointing to Current Needs. / BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Time* SUIT Writer WASHINGTON, March 20. —Devastating floods can be prevented If entire watersheds are dealt with In a program combining flood control and soil conservation, H. H. Bennett, chief of the soil conservation service, said today. “Much of the flood is man-made,’’ he said, “and man can remedy that part of it.” Dr. Paul Sears, University of Oklahoma expert on soil erosion and author of “deserts on the March,” said here at the same time that the current floods emphasize the need of a real land management program to conserve topsoil and check the erosion which he blamed for the floods’. Complete control of the floods and author of “Deserts on the though it may not always be justifiable, according to the water planning committee of President Roosevelt's national resources board. The committee estimated the average annual flood damage in the United States at $35.0W),000, plus indirect and intangible losses. , Secret of Flood Control Explained The secret of flood oontrol is to hold the water where it falls and let it be carried off slowly, Mr. Bennett explained. The soil conservation service, a unit of the Agricultural Department has launched a 34-year program to this end. / “Our job is to see that the steep \plopes, gashed from erosion, are taken out of cultivation and either reforested or resodded,” he said. “That holds the water much longer and prevents further carrying away of topsoil. In addition, thousands of dams must be constructed on the smaller creeks and rivers to hold back the waters during the flood season, when snow and- ice! combine with spring rains to cause tne great torrents. “Then, of course, there must still be the Army engineers’ work in handling flood stages in the larger streams, through the building of levees, deepening channels and the like. Definite Program Is Need “All plans should be incorporated Into a definite program for each watershed. While floods would not! cease altogether, they would be | vastly curbed. “As it is now, they are getting worse, as witness the rising height of the water in the Mississippi floods. The top was 37.6 feet at flood stage in 1897; 43.4 in 1916. and 45.8 in 1927.” The cast of financing a completely co-ordinated watershed program would be less than the damage in any single bad year, Mr. Bennett asserted. “The waste of good soil from farmlands alone, through erosion that could be controlled, amounts to $400,01)0,000 a year,” he said. Watershed control programs are

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'in progress on the Big Creek in Missouri and at Stillwater, Okla. A 1 program is also getting under way I in New York state. Dr. Scars, wno has been here adi vising with Agriculture Department , officials on methods of meeting the erosion problem in the Western j wheat belt, said Easterners do not | realize that they have a serious ero- | sion problem. The present floods | should serve, he thought, to bring home to them the necessity of combating it. “Engineering on Eastern rivers is not at fault,” he said. “The real trouble lies in the erosion. A tremendous amount of soil is being washed away in the East. People don't see so many gullies, for Che problem in the East is more prevalent in the form of sheet erosion.” He recommended reforestation and proper grass cover to pin down the topsoil. Warns Flood Losses Increase The water planning committee warns that losses “have been increased greatly by the unwise encroachment of settlement and industry upon many lowlands subject to inundation.” “In many cases, fortunately,” the committee says, “certain works designed to regulate or control the flow of a river may not only reduce or eliminate the flood hazard along its banks, but may also increase navigability, provide water for irrigation, make possible the development of power, or otherwise serve human interests.” The report out'ined four types of flood control wjrks—storage reservoirs, retarding basins, channel improvements and levees.

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STATE HIGHWAY DETOUR LENGTH REMAINS SAME Two Run-Arounds Lifted, but Two Others Are Put Into Effect. The state highway detour situation remained unchanged in extent ; this week, although two detours j were added and two others, which | had been in effect for some time, were lifted. The State Highway Commission announced new detours in effect on city streets in Frankfort on Road 28 and on Road 119 between Buffalo and Headlee. A construction detour has been lifted from Road 1 over city streets in Hagerstown and a truck detour from Road 41 j through Vincennes. Many secondary roads, chiefly north of the National Road, still are posted for a three-ton gross load limit because of the unstable conui- ! tion of the roads due to thawing. Detours in effect include: Road 9. Drive carefully from junction Road 67 south of Pendleton to Huntsville account shoulder and bridge construction. Road 14. Detour east of Akron is three miles over county gravel road. Road 15. Closed between Wabash and Road 114, detour 20 miles marked over Roads 13. 213 and 114: detour 13 miles I marked from Silver Lake east over Road 14 and north over four miles of county

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R. R. Presidents to Meet Bp United Press NEW YORK. March 20—The presidents of six Eastern railroads were expected today to meet again

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within a week presumably to discuss a reduction in passenger rates. A meeting yesterday ended with aiy official announcement that no de-- : cision had been reached.