Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-26


ny Engineer Corps was attended
proposed in 1916, at River Bend.
A series of small dams should be
built instead. he said.
Waverly Taylor, real estate
dealer and riverside property
holder. echoed this sentiment. He
said that. instead of a water
reservoir at the doorstep of his
estate, some 40 impeachment
dams retaining AGO billion gall
Ions should be built upstream.
Mr.. Taylor added that periods
when the reservoir water level
would be lowered would bare
unsightly mud-fiats along the
shores.
Frederick Gutheim, chairman
of a special Co-ordinating Com
mittee on the Potomac River, as
serted the Army engineers have
over-emphasized the seriousness
OF the water supply problem. II
know Of no reliable facts which
substantiate this position" he
said. Scare tactics will not
work."
A cry for "burying the high
level dam proposal once and for
all" was made by Attorney Ar
thur B. Hanson, a Montgomerian.
THE Army engineers" he vol
unteered, moreover, should 90
back to the Army and out Of
civilian life"
Fear for Canal
The West Montgomery Citizen
Association. represented by
Washington I. Cleveland and
others. likewise objected to the
River Bend site possibility, large
~ because Of the resulting in
undation Of the historic Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal.
Other opposition came from
the Montgomery County Council,
the District Audubon Society. the
Maryland Division Of the Izaak
Walton League and individual
residents Of Potomac and Mo-
nocacy River areas, who do not
wish to have their properties
swamped or wild life assets lost.
Darwin Stolzenbach, represent
ing the County planning COM
mission, took the middle ground.
He simply asked that the engi-
|neers approach their survey with
no "preconceived preference" for
River Bend and that they con-
slider all conceivable alternative
solutions to an assured water
supply here.
The Eastern Shore bloc of
some rs farmers favoring hydro
electric power generation on the
Potomac was led by State Sen
ator Robert P. Dean. Democrat
OF Queen Anne's, and Delegate
Harry r. Hughes, Democrat of
Caroline.
Hit High Rates
All complained Of existing high
electricity rates and asserted
that Potomac power would solve
their power problem.
I'VE favor building a high
dam and we favor building 1t
now" Senator Dean announced.
Robert Mcleod. deputy chief
engineer of the Washington SUBJ
urban Sanitary Commission.
spoke favorably Of a River Bend
dam site. He was Joined by JOS
eph T. Singewald. jr.. director
OF the Maryland Department Of
Geology, Mines and Water Re-
sources, who testified:
you need water storage in the
vicinity Of Washington. II you
don't have water. you won't have
to worry about hydro-power, rec
reation or anything else. You
won't be here"
An orchardist, r. Samuel
Dillon Of Hancock, Nd, said wa
ter supply must be regulated not
only for drinking use but for irri-
cation. A number Of low dams
as well as a possible high dam
near Washington seem indi-
Gated, he testified.
The mother who made a per-
Isonal plea for steps to guarantee
water for the future was Mrs.
Ruth Riley, a Montgomery real
estate agent.
II represent the children my
daughter is going to have some
day." Mrs. Riley told the engi-
lneers. II want to make sure they
will have water. I have seen
other parts of the country 20
dry, and don't want it to hap
pen here"