Arizona republican., 1919-06-11
NEW WATER CONTROL PLAN PRESENTED BY. GEORGE H. MAXWELL.

Based upon the Newlands- -Olmsted system for soaking flood water under ground, George H. Maxwell outlined a plan yesterday before the members of the Kiwanis club at their luncheon which, perhaps brings that novel, and in Arizona untried, system of flood water control into direct application to the Salt River valley as method of practically solving the tremendous flood situation at Cave Creek and h. dian Bend.
 Cave Creek and it's floods, Mir Max well said, have been one of the troubles of the farmers of the country north of Glendale for many years, and the floods that have periodically broken the Arizona canal at Indian Bend and ravaged the country below that point have added to the complexities of the administration of the Arizona canal system, from the day it was built un- til the present time, and no adequate solution for either problem apparently has been practicable.
 The illustration given by MT. Max well as a parallel case, in many re-
 
 Los Angeles. There the city has spent s25, 900, 900 to bring water from the Owens river country to the head of the San Fernando Valley, where it falls down beautiful cataract coming 1 from the end of the tunnel on the mountain side at the head of the val ley at a place where it is plainly visible i to every traveller on the railroad after 1 leaving the southerly end of the Teha- i chipa tunnel.
 Most people probably think" said Mir. Maxwell, that something in the way of a pipe or conduit or canal has i been provided to carry this water from 1 that point to Los Angeles, a distance of many miles, but such is not the case The basin of the San Fernando valley, underground, is used as the conduit, and the engineers know just how. long after the water is poured into the head of the valley from the end of the great aqueduct it will reach the Mar rows at the lower end of the San Fer nando valley and be available to re- plenish the municipal supply of the city of Los Angeles
 ''The same physical conditions exist
 here for the Salt River Valley" contin-
 ued the speake-, provided you will
 take advantage of the great boon that
 nature has conf erred upon you to in
 crease your water supply on the Sal;
 River above the Joint Head of the
 Grand and Maricopa Canals.
 All the surplus flood water that now runs to waste in destructive floods 1T
 Cave Creek, and the water that causes
 the breaks in the canal and overflow: the country below Indian Bend on the Arizona Canal. can be soaked under ground on the floor of Paradise valley
 above the route of the Paradise Verd, 1 canal, and just as the aqueduct wate finds it's way from the mouth of tn. aqueduct at the head of the San Fer nando Valley to the Narrows at tn } lower end of the valley at Los Angeles so will the flood water that is soake, g into the floor of Paradise Valley abov
 the Paradise Verde canal, find its wa, underground to the Salt River opposit l Tempe
 When I saw the article in the Re 2 publican a few days ago about tn meeting at the Washington schoo n house in reference to the Cave Cree f floods, l asked George W. Sturtevan
 the engineer of the Paradise Verde IF f rigation district, to take me out an S show me where they proposed to bull I the storage dam across Cave Greet d from whence the surplus flood water
 could be thrown over into the Paradis r valley drainage. He very kindly con r. sented, and last Friday we drove s 6 miles to make a very careful reconois Ii sance of the country involved in m if idea of soaking these surplus foo 6 waters into the floor of Paradise val = ley. We drove a long ways up Apach s creek and up Cave Creek as far a
 Houcks.
 f "There is not the slightest doubt = the fact that there is enough nearl
 level land in the floor of the Paradis
 valley above the proposed canal of u
 ParadiseFerde project to make it e1 o tirely practicable by building say fi' g, foot contour canals across that upp. b part of Paradise valley to store eve:
 drop of that surplus Cave Creek floc IF water underground and then it will i l. transported underground as they do r. the San Fernando valley. from that |,
 cality to ''The Spring" opposite Il Tempe Butte. Not a drop of u E water would be wasted. Once undel ' ground, it would find it's way as ce s tianly as though sent through a co1 \ duit, to this place of outlet, and