The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1951-02-22
PAGE FoUR
ConservancY Plan
Back to Directors
(Contihued rrom Page u

Inc 16ldWdTG OdiIl Will DGSlIl
operations this summer and con-
struction has started on the Paint
Creek dam. No other work has be-
gun and the Tiffin dam is not
considered economically feasible
at this time.
The cross-examination of Cham
bers was expected to end the
hearings.
He told the court Tuesday af-
ternoon the Mill Creek site was
the only one with sufficient capa-
city to control downstream Scioto
river flood waters.
He said the Mill Creek project
plus local protection would en-
able the Scioto river before it
meets the Olentangy to handle
a flow of more than $4,000 cubic
feet per second. At present, it
would be overtopped by 10000
cubic feet per second.
Chambers said the Big Darby
creek reservoir would give good
flood control of waters in both
the Big and Little Darby creeks.
The Scioto-Sandusky Conser-
vancy District Court Tuesday
heard in Columbus that reloca-
ton of part of Route SO between
Marysville and Delaware as re-
quired in the proposed construc-
ton of a Mill Creek dam would
cost $55O,OOO.
This conflicted with S2l9,0OO
estimate made by engineers for
the Conservancy District.
The court departed from its
regular schedule to hear testi-
mony from r. N. Ricketts,, a Della
ware consulting engineer for the
State Highway Department. Rick
etts told the court the road relo-
cation he plotted for Delaware
County Prosecutor Clyde E. Lewis
would be 13,200 feet long.
The relocation recommended by
Conservancy District engineers is
only $500 feet long.
Irwin F. Leist, manager of
Circleville's water and sewage de-
partment, was the first witness
heard Tuesday in favor of the dam
project.
Leist said there always is the
possibility of another flood SINH
lar to the 1913 disaster. He said
he understood the Mill Creek dam
would lower flood crests in Cir
cleville by four feet, which was
the level reached at the towns
water plant in 1913.
Leist also said the Circleville
Chamber of Commerce has gone
on record favoring the Delaware
County danE
c. c. Chambers, chief engineer
for the Conservancy District, said
the Mill Creek area contains only
one sixth of the physical terri
tory in the district but contributes
one-fourth of the flow in any
flood.
He outlined the methods of pre-
pairing the plans under discussion
and detailed the effect of tribu-
taries on flood conditions.
Chambers said the plan called
for the most costly flood protec-
ton in urban area and because it
is possible to protect more highly
valued property there, he said, it
is impossible to protect all rural
areas.
The engineer said small reser-
voirs are useful in controlling the
sudden large run-offs which re-
suit from brief summer storms.
However, he said they fill up
rapidly and lose their usefulness
nuring protracted storms such as
the one which occurred in March,
1913.
He said the districts plan con-
stitutes a more complete study
of floods in this area than has
ever been made before" ="
One of the leading witnesses
Monday afternoon was Earl II.
Anderson of Columbus, hydraulic
engineer for the State Water Re-
sources board. He put the Natural
Resources Department on record
in favor of the dam near Bell
point.
The court declined to hear
representative of the u. S. Army
Engineers at Huntington, w. Va.
His testimony was offered by
Delaware County Prosecutor
Lewis in explanation of charge
that Congress has not approved
construction of seven dams in the
Conservancy District as claimed
by the district directors.
The charge was made by U. S.
Rep. ]. Harry McGregor (R-W.
Lafayette) in telegram to the
court late Friday.
The court said it would not hear
the Army's representative because
the telegram was not admitted as
evidence.
Others testi1ying for the dam
Monday afternoo included
Howard w. Laymon of Chilli
cothe, division technical director
of the Mead Corporation; Ross
Cline, president of the Chillicothe
Lions Club, and Harold AleXan-
der, Chillicothe Public Service Di-