Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1941 — Page 5

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Water Company Far Ahead of Schedule in Oaklandon Project; 2000-Acre Lake Will Have Capacity Of 7000 Billion Gallons. By RICHARD LEWIS Gleaming white in the sunlight, the south abutment of the spillway rose abruptly from the mud of the valley above the wilderness of scrub trees and brush like some monolithic remnant of a forgotten people. Claris Allen, the engineer, led the way to the north hill, his heavy galoshes squoeshing footprints in the oozing mud. From the hilltop, one could see the panorama of construction in the valley and it seemed that man and nature had met just about half-way.

The Indianapolis Water Company’s Oaklandon dam in|

the narrows of the valley of Fall Creek was half done. In five months, the schedule had been beaten decisively. The

houses, ‘barns, roads and a village. At Germantown, half upstream, there will be nine feet of water where’ the homes of the villagers stand. There are only

a mile and aj;

men were way ahead. * A million years ago or so the “ glacier had cut this valley some-

three families left in Germantown now. The rest have moved and the remaining three are leaving before March 1.

The Indianapolis Water Co.'s $1,600,000 dam at Oaklandon & a « half finished and way. ahead

Half-ton, two-foot bess: of concrete are laid to form the rip-rapping at the giant spillway base,

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ad the topic discussions in the BERLE ‘TOO BUSY;

dam was rising at the bottleneck. Next fall, the bottle will- begin to fill as Fall Creek backs up against the solid, earthen walls of the dam until a lake seven miles -long and a half-mile to a mile wide forms. 2000-Acre Bottle

.. This will be a 2000-acre bottle filled with 7 billion gallons of water for the factories and homes .of Indianapolis,

, Engineer Allen pushed his battered, gray felt hat firmly down .-on his head and grinned as the ~ photographer and reporter toiled up the slope behind him, sliding “backwards in the mud every other step. = “You've got to expect a little mud “on a construction job,” he said. A Struck weighed down with aggregate ‘swooshed down the slough of a road ‘that led into the valley.

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‘gan the descent, Outlet Concrete Poured

From hilltop to, hilltop, the out-

>line of the dam stretched 1900 feet. + A row of steel piling, nk deep . into the earth to prevent page, ‘swept down from the norin the north abutment of the 500-foot . Spillway on the valley floor. From the abutment base, rose the outlines of the Outlet Works draped in burlap. The concrete had just “been poured to form the structure “which will house the outlet of the dam. Hidden by the mass of machinery, wooden forms and the spillway base, sight. Creek itself was nowhere in sig

. Cubes of Concrete

~The muddy road led to the spill.way where a crane was depositing <concrete cubes in the rip-rapping 5of the spillway base. These twoifoot cubes looked small, but each ‘weighed over half a ton. The trucks roared through the ‘mud, from the aggregates pile at the top of hill to the “batcher” on the valley floor where cement was poured into the sand and gravel. ‘The trucks then dumped their loads ;at the mixer which made and

i ~cube molds. % The trucks ploughed through the mud in a steady stream. Then, empty they roared away. Some went _ to a gravel pile two and one-half miles up the valley.

Ample Gravel Supply

The glacial force which built the valley also had left the gravel there. No man knew how extensive the 1gravel pile was up there in the “brush. The County’ had used the 3 | “pile for years before the water com+Dbany took over. = Almost at the center of the valley ] bottom was Fall Creek, flowing “clear and cold. If bubbled underneath the wooden bridge over which “the truck rumbled, through the 80foot gap in the spillway which.had - been left open for it. Next summer, the channel of the .creek will be diverted into the out“let works, and the spillway gap will »be closed. Then, everything will be ~ready. é Village To Be Covered

The small stream will begin to form a lake and- water will rise 25 feet above the wooden bridge to the top of the spillway until it rushes over the spillway’s S-curved trajectory. . Through the valley, the ‘waters : will’ rise, covering rich bottomland,

‘nell place,

.poured the lava-like concrete into|.

Mrs. Floyd McConnell said she and her husband didn’t mind moving. They had been warned of the

rented the farm eight years ago and

TO CONVENE MONDAY

The Indiana Chapter of the Spepossibility of the dam when they|cis) Libraries Assoctation will dis-

ning a new wedding date today, “But it won’t be a long postpon

"Hair’s - Tea : Room. Stephen C. i to have b fed |ment,” she said. “We will probab WEDDING DELAYED ity Sete t 1 ave, been manied 4 married within a week—just 2

oland, editor of The Indianapolis News, will Speak on “Services sii ‘HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 28 (U. P.)—|from New York, but Berle was so|soon as Milton can get away from Comedian Milton Berle and . hisjbusy he: was unable even: to- meet | work.”

Proceedures” here Monday evening. |C Mrs. Verna B. Grimm, librarian of |n the American Legion "Library, and |, Miss Lucille Dichman, libraria= of the Riley and Rotary Hospitals, will b;

had been expecting it. They have found another place they like as well, Dolphia Virgin, general repair man for .the water company, who lives up the road from the McConsaid nearly everyone had expected it. The company had purchased some of the land and right-of-way years ago. Across the meadows from the village, Fall Creek flowed quietly in its groove of centuries, sparkling in the autumn sunlight. It wound through grassy

gushed through the channel left |. for iit.

New Forms Prepared

At the site, the men were prearing the forms for the north abutment. Soon, the earthen layers for the dam will be put down and pressed by ponderous rollers, packed to a density of 130 pounds to the cubic foot. Years’ ago, earth fill dams were’ flattened by herds of sheep which were driven across them. Modern, engineering has improved on that. Machines do the work now—trac-tor-pulled rollers spiked with steel prongs. They call them “sheeps’foot” rollers.

. Engineer Is Proud

The engineer stood on the bridge, his galoshes| caked with mud. He felt a quiet | pride at the massive work rising up ahead in the sunlight, Under the bridge, the sparkling waters of the creek flowed steadily down to the dam and through it. For uncounted ages, this stream had flowed through the wild valley. But, for future ages there will be a lake that will endure longer than Suyore who | built it can possibly OW. |

AUGUST J. HANSEN IS DEAD HERE AT 60

August J, Hansen died last night at his home, 16021; S. East St. He was 60 and was found dead by his wife, Mrs. Anna Hansen, upon her return from church. Mr. Hansen had been ill for four years. Born in Copenhagen, -Denmark, he came to the United States in 1902 and lived in Chicago from 1918 until 1935 when he came to} § Indianapolis, He was employed at|% the National Tea Store while a resident of Chicago. He was a member of the St. Mark’s English Lutheran Church and the Danish Brotherhood. Surviving; besides the wife, are a son, A. Stanley Hansen, Indianapolis; a brother, Paul Hansen, Chicago, dnd two sisters, Mrs. Kristine Truelsen, Butlerville and Mrs. Anna Carlsen, Copenhagen. Services will be conducted at 2 p. m. tomorrow in. St. Mark's Church by Dr. Rinier Benting, pastor. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.

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