(1 Conservation Districts 

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 II PROGRAIVI 



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 imuntty College. Pine Hills. Crafted Homes, 



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 4ouse Room) — Rev Donald Hamilton 

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 iSlattery. presiding 

 >s FFA Chapter 

 4layor Claude Jones 

 rj Robert M Anderson 

 rl- Wendell Martmell 

 fen - Mrs H F Uhlrich 

 *ion — Peter V Jackson 

 Q Commission Report — Carl H 

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( Wiles City RCA and FLBA 

 4 Leads to Action." Charles Lane. 



J Campbell, regional counsel. En- 

 on Agency. Denver. Gary Wicks. 

 t of Natural Resources and Con- 

 liep James Lucas. Custer County, 

 siynam. president. Montana Wild- 

 ly City 



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 'litis Dale Marxer 



I erald Ebelt. Entertainment Gail 

 '^r. Monte Mulkey 

 j^iger. president. Society for Range 



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)»:t directors and make committee 



John Vanisko, chairman (Cafe 

 iliyematsu. chairman (Bunkhouse 

 Naegeli. chairman (Supper Club 



^^life. Frank Thompson, chairman 



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14 . Dale Marxer and Harold Jensen, 



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H Hippe. chairman (Supper Club 



nportland. chairman (Supper Club 



c 3ter Resources. Art Christensen. 

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 i Fenton, chairman (Supper Club 



c Wiles City PCA and FLBA 

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 •dis Wallace McRae 

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Cedar Creek Watershed Reservoir 



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BOARD: 



B//I Kesler, Herb Koenig. Wes Roath, Robin 



Street. Marcus Hinrichs: Arnold Jacobsen 



685 Sunset Blvd. 



Kalispell, Mt. 



59901 



Flsthesd Qounty 

 Cionsepvsticn Qistnict 



Shown is an aerial view of the completed 

 Cedar Creek Watershed Reservoir located 

 two miles north of Columbia Falls. This 

 project was co-sponsored by the Flathead 

 County and Flathead Conservation Dis- 

 trict. Operation and maintenance will be 

 by the City of Columbia Falls and Flathead 

 County. Funding was by City of Columbia 

 Falls with a loan from Farmers Home 

 Administration and through Soil Conser- 

 vation Service P.L. 566 watershed funding. 

 The dam is 60 feet high. Reservoir has 

 1600 Ac. Ft. for flood control. 400 Ac. Ft. 

 for municipal water and 100 Ac. Ft. sedi- 

 ment pool. Cost of the project was be- 

 ^tween one half and one million dollars. 



semi-automatic 

 waterspreading. The main pur 



pose ot this system is to get maximum use of 

 available water without wasting any out the 

 spillways or letting water miss the dike system 

 when no one is there to control it The dikes are 

 scraper dikes two feet high The fill needed to 

 construct the dikes was borrowed from higher 

 areas above each dike This eliminated waste 

 areas and low spots that wouldn't drain 



The system is designed with a control dike 

 8,500 feet long and two and one-half feet high 

 with an eight-foot wide concrete headgate to 



BOARD: 



Jack Korsbeck. Leo Depuydt. William French. 



Lloyd Knudsen. LeRoy Costin 



Box G 



Malta, Mt. 



59538 



Phillips Qounty 

 Qcnsepvstion Qistpict 



supply water to the contour dikes. The control 

 dike allows water to bypass the contour dikes 

 if necessary and is used to irrigate additional 

 land adjacent to the waterspreading system 



Soil Conservation Service technicians de- 

 signed this system with a one-foot elevation 

 drop between dikes Each dike has a center 

 dram structure and an emergency spillway 

 The dram structure is a weir that also serves as 

 a headgate for holdmg water between the 

 dikes. 



The weirs used in the spreader dikes are 

 designed to hold a foot of water between each 

 dike, then flow over the weir into the next 

 dike without running the spillway Therefore, 



o n l y i n e m e rg e nc ie s w ill the sp ill way run T i ns 

 is one of the mam features of the system 



I'm sure most of you have either seen or 

 had to cope with washed out spillways that need 

 repairing in order to keep a dike system func- 

 tioning as originally planned. With control of 

 the water and use of the weirs there is no soil 

 erosion in spillways and the water drops from 

 one dike into the next while you are busy 

 calving or with other ranch work You do have 

 to open the drain gates in the front of the weirs 

 to release the water when the land has been 

 properly irrigated 



This system changed one hundred and sixty 

 acres of relatively unproductive land into a 

 very productive hay meadow —Bill French 



