Report on Illinois-Indiana interstate drainage
Subtitle: Yellowhead-Singleton Ditch System, June 1, 1954
By: prepared by authority of House Joint Resolution no. 50, Sixty-Eighth General Assembly
Contributors: Illinois. Dept. of Public Works and Buildings
Publisher: Illinois Division of Waterways, Dept. of Public Works and Buildings
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Springfield, Ill.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drainage
Other titles: Illinois-Indiana interstate drainage :
Description: Pursuant to an Illinois House Joint Resolution, the Dept. of Public Works and Buildings, investigated the effect of flooding in Illinois caused by the unnatural diversion of flow from the Yellowhead-Singleton Ditch System in Indiana; and made recommendations on legal actions to resolve the matter.
Notes: "June 1, 1954"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47).

The Yellowhead-Singleton Ditch, an interstate drainage channel, was constructed to drain the Kankakee Swamps in Lake County (IN) and Kankakee County (IL). Some 235 square miles of Indiana drainage was brought into Illinois and passed through the main ditch of the Momence and Yellowhead Towhnships Drainage District No. 1 before entering the Kankakee River.