SOUTH BUFFALO FLOODS AND PROPOSED REMEDY. 13 



The object of this construction is twofold, First: to collect all 

 the waters of the stream in the channel to be provided below 

 the weir. Second : To maintain the present flood conditions out- 

 side of the city in order to avoid any possible complications with 

 other than city authorities. It may be stated right here that it 

 is generally considered that a flood over such a valley as that of 

 the Buffalo River, when the land is utilized for market garden 

 purposes is not always an unmixed evil. A large portion of the 

 territory inside of the city line, which is now made to suffer 

 injury by the floods, was a few years ago cultivated and the 

 soil probably much enriched by the annual floods. Anyway, it 

 is concluded that the city authorities should confine their work 

 to the territory controlled by them and it is even, with justice, 

 I think, argued that the controlling works proposed at the city 

 line should be paid for by the state authorities — the same being 

 a work made necessary by waters furnished in superabundance 

 by lands extending many miles beyond the city line and subject 

 to the control of the state authorities. 



From below the controlling weir a channel is to be excavated 

 in the earth with a width on the bottom of 120 ft. and with 

 banks sloping in a ratio of r to 1^ — the elevation of the bottom 

 of this channel being at the upper end — 17 feet below city datum; 

 this channel to be continued to the junction with Cazenovia 

 Creek — a distance of 7600 feet, the elevation of the bottom at 

 such junction being — 21 feet (the diagrams, herwith, show sec- 

 tion of the proposed channel and of the present channel ) (Cuts 5, 6) 



At Cazenovia St. on the Cazenovia Creek there is at present 

 a dam which holds the waters back in an artificial lake in Caz- 

 enovia Park. This o.ream at this location is on a rock bottom 

 and just below Cazenovia Street it is proposed to start a chan- 

 nel excavated in the rock to a depth of about 12 feet to the 

 proposed channel bottom at an elevation of — 9 feet city datum. 

 This channel to be 75 ft. wide on bottom and of section as 

 shown by the accompanying diagram. On another sheet, I have 

 shown a section of the present channel of this stream. This 

 section of channel proposed is continued to the junction with 

 Buffalo River. From the junction of Cazenovia Creek with 

 Buffalo River a channel is to be excavated 170 feet wide on 

 the bottom, with sloping banks as shown by diagram of said 

 channel and continued to the point of proposed outlet into the 

 outer harbor, at which point the bottom is at an elevation of 

 — 23 ft. From this point, as indicated on the map, about op- 



