Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 148, 12 July 1908 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. StTKD AT, JULY 12, 1908.
PAGE THIEUSE. TO TRY TO CONTROL OHIO RIVER FLOODS Devastating Torrents That Do Millions of Damage Annually to Be Checked. , This is the 0ils4 Dmportamiti
great smssm
GOVERNMENT TAKES HAND.
UNITED STATES WILL MAKE AN EFFORT TO RENDER LOSSES FROM FLOODS A MINIMUM FOR BUILDING OF RESERVOIRS.
1 Cincinnati, July 11. Can the mighty "waters of the Ohio river be controlled In flood times and the disastrous overflows that each year causes damage amounting to millions be avoided? This problem, recognized by the government as one of the greatest confronting it, in the general scheme of
Inland waterways, is going to be solved If modern scientific engineering tan solve it, and Cincinnati is to be the scene of the attempt, says the Times-Star. Under the most unpretentious conditions and absolutely without any display, this gigantic task, one that scientists the world over will watch, lias started in Newport, the pretty Kentucky neighbor of this city. With B. beginning so modest that but one or two persons are aware., the work has begun, it marks the first step in what lt It proves a success will mean the expenditure of more than a hundred (million dollars, the creation of one (hundred reservoirs along the Ohio and Its tributaries, and the freedom of the Ohio Valley, most fertile in the world, from the disastrous overflows that peem steadily to grow more dangerous fend more frequent. - Navigable All Year. '! In a word, the government has tapcen the first step in a project to do Eiway with the floods of which Cininnati established a new record the ast winter and spring, by having five Erithin a few months. With it if the lan be a success-will be solved to an xtent the problem of a navigable rlv)er twelve months In the year. The Scheme is so stupendous that It is not Surpassed in extent nor in possibilitiea by the damning of the Nile, the great r'"- of northern Africa a project i v!!lzed a people and made a j v spot of a desert, changed an auaual destructive flood Into a blessing of untold value. ! On June 15 there arrived H. A. Horlon, commissioner of the geological jfiepartment of the government and a (corps of assistants. They established headquarters in the Newport, Ky., 4ostoffice, occupying several rooms tn fhe second floor. The rooms were fitted up for them and in a day or two jail the paraphernalia needed in the work of the preliminary survey was on '.band. ' Survey Is Ordered. The project which is now underway was first suggested by Marshall O. Leighton, chief hydrographer of the .United States Geological survey, who has for years been outlining it and finally induced the government to give It consideration to such an extent that the survey hr.s been ordered. It is this survey which Commissioner Horon started "on the 15th of June. Mr. iLeighton's plan is not to equalize the .flow of the Ohio during the year. That is considered a task too stupendous for fcntm to attempt. He does, however, Jlan for reservoir capacity enough to fetore what is designated as the top fcvave of the floods, which do nearly all damage to communities along the iriver from Pittsburg to Cairo. He jurges that when the Ohio rises to near (flood stage the 100 reservoirs to be
established along the rtream and its
'tributaries could receive so tremen
jtious an amount of water and retain tit, that only a flood passing all known
'records, historical old legendary, would
be able to do serious damage. Where They Would Be.
t Most of these reservoirs would be located where they could retain
jwaters from the tributaries, which rreally cause the floods. They would, of course, be vast affairs if they are o be of material value when hundreds yot millions of gallons of water are
(rushing toward the Ohio, but the size
,of the project does not daze the sci
entist who has planned the scheme. ?Kor does the cost seem to present any difficulty. His figures are that 100
reservoirs can be created at a cost not
to exceed $125,000,000, a figure that is :Eot to be compared to the value if the
(plan succeeds.
Commissioner Horton was in New(port the other day, but has gone to
iWest Virginia, in the Big Sandy dis
Ltrict, where the first work of the sur-
jvey will probably be done.
j The scheme to hold in check the j'top wave" of floods is but half of
'the value of the general proposition
sit is claimed by hydrographer Lelgh-
ton that so vast a volume of water (will be retained that in the summer .'months, when the drought season is Ion and much of the Ohia is closed to
.navigation of large boats, these res
Jervoirs can be opened and the stage
of water increased to where naviga
tion is possible along its entire course
:Thus he proposes on the one hand to
save from destruction in flood time
and on the other hand to save from
6tagnation in the drought season.
NOTICE F. O. E.
There will be one Trustee to elect at the regular meeting Wednesday night, July 15th, 1908. A full attendance Is desired. JOE WEISHAUPT, W. P. J. P. HARTZLER, Sec" v. ii-5t
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50c grade 39c
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