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is seen at a glance. At present there are some 15 or 18 feet of 

 land between the waters of the two streams, 500 feet above the 

 present mouth of Bean Blossom. 



Reconstruction AL Measures and Their Cost 



The investigation of the flood results, in itself, gave only an 

 idea of the amount of damage done, with a bare guess as to the 

 probable cost of replacing the structures damaged or entirely de- 

 stroyed. Accordingly, a little more than a year after the flood 

 a second investigation was made with the end in view of ascertaining 

 the cost to the counties concerned of reconstructing and repairing 

 roads and bridges, the cost to the towns due to flood damage, and 

 the cost to the railroads in rebuilding impaired or destroyed struc- 

 tures. It must be understood that this investigation could not 

 bring the exact costs or expenses incurred by the different bodies, 

 due to the flood alone, to an exact total, because more or less repair 

 work would have been done regardless of the flood; because all the 

 reconstruction work is not yet complete; and because only rough 

 estimates could be procured on a greater part of the work. No 

 attempt was made to ascertain some of the greatest losses, such 

 as those occurring to individuals personally, and to corporations, 

 including loss in traffic to railroads, and losses due to idleness 

 of factories on account of the lack of material, etc. The figures 

 given refer strictly to objective measures. The detailed condi- 

 tions of practically all of the embankments and bridges are given 

 in the discussion of levees and embankments and will not be re- 

 peated here. Attention is called to that part of the discussion 

 for such details. 



Morgan County, as has been brought out in the part dealing 

 with levees and embankments, was a heavy loser on account of the 

 flood. The public road and grade and the approaches to the bridge 

 at Waverly were rebuilt at a cost of $1,200. (See Figure 21, for 

 the condition immediately after the flood.) At Henderson bridge, 

 where great damage was done to the high public road embankment 

 across the valley, the cost went far into the thousands. It was 

 found necessary to build another span to the bridge one hundred 

 seventy-five feet in length, where the current had widened the 

 channel on the south side. This span of bridge cost $9,000. The 

 high grade was replaced as it was before, at a cost of $3,800. As 

 has been said on a preceding page, the damage here was almost 

 entirely due to the insufficiency of the opening under the bridge. 



