The Tuttle Creek Story. Part 1

http://www.kansasmemory.org/blog/post/64312388

The people of the Blue River Valley in Kansas produced this short film as part of their campaign against the construction of a dam and reservoir on the Big Blue River in the Flint Hills of Northeast Kansas, north of Manhattan. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a series of flood control projects in the Missouri River basin beginning in the late 1930s. The Pick-Sloan plan authorized by Congress in the Flood Control Act of 1944 called for a series of large dams and levees on rivers in the basin. The film argues that the large flood control measures proposed by the Corps of Engineers are unnecessary and ineffectual and flood prevention methods through small retention dams in individual watersheds are less invasive and more effective. Despite heavy local opposition, construction of the Tuttle Creek dam began in 1952 and it became fully operational by July 1962. The dam displaced 3000 people and ten towns including Stockdale, Randolph, Winkler, Cleburne, Irving, Blue Rapids, Shroyer, Garrison, Barrett, and Bigelow.

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Education

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• kansas
• memory
• historical
• society
• tuttle
• creek
• dam

[nursewolf]

Now the lake is silting in.. not enough water for electrical generation. The dam does well for flood control ..... but the lake needs a major overhaul.

[ddnddn]

Fear-mongering... I thought it was a recent tool of the Repubs.... this video shows that it's a Republican tradition! -- I love this video, though. Thanks for posting.