DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1934 69 



Acting under instructions from Dr. Hogg, cross sections were made of the 

 valley at intervals of approximately one thousand feet, and these cross sections 

 have been plotted on a separate sheet which forms part of the returns. 



Cross sections were taken on the C.P.R. for approximately one thousand 

 feet each side of the river, for a double purpose; to enable the Power Com- 

 mission to estimate the amount of rip-rap required, and to enable an estimate 

 to be made of the cost of raising the C.P.R. track, if such were considered 

 desirable. 



The road leading north through Waldemar, which is in effect a deviation 

 of the allowance for road between Concessions IX and X, Township of Amar- 

 anth, will be affected by the proposed development. We accordingly ran a 

 line of levels along this road from a point opposite the Post Office in Waldemar 

 Village a distance of about a mile to the High ground north of the bridge 

 opposite Township Lot 4, in order that the Commission might have infor- 

 mation for obtaining the comparative cost of raising the present road, or 

 diverting it to the higher ground to the west. 



The Fourteenth Line Road will have to be diverted at its northern end, 

 and additional contours were located in this area so that a diversion could 

 be projected. This diversion need not be of any great length — probably 

 sixteen or seventeen hundred feet in all. 



With regard to the Thirteenth Line, which will be closed, our opinion 

 is that to make a diversion either to the Fourteenth Line or to the Twelfth 

 Line would entail greater expense than would be warranted by the benefit 

 of such diversion to the farmers affected, and we think that it would probably 

 be better to arrange, if necessary, some form of compensation to the injured 

 land owners. 



Station Street leading east across the river from the main street of Walde- 

 mar will require raising, and a profile of this street was also obtained, to enable 

 an estimate of cost to be developed. 



The Power Commission was desirous of getting certain information with 

 regard to an alternative dam site in Concession XII. We accordingly traced 

 the 1475 contour for about twenty-four hundred feet below the Twelfth Line, 

 and took two cross sections there. The work done here, however, was kept 

 to a minimum, as it was felt that the funds available were not sufficient to 

 investigate this area further. 



Areas have been computed of the several different holdings affected, and 

 where it was thought that the area of the residue left to the present owner 

 would affect the costs of the project, these were also computed. The owners' 

 names are shown from information gathered on the ground, and have not been 

 checked at the Registry Office, so, while we feel that they are probably correct, 

 there may be errors in the information supplied us. 



Above the line between the Townships of East Luther and Amaranth, 

 the proposed construction will not flood any additional land, but, at the 

 suggestion of the Power Commission, we carried our levels up the stream as far 

 as the main street of the Village of Grand Valley. 



