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been placed a concrete pavement eleven inches thick, twenty feet 

 wide, and four thousand four hundred feet long. This pavement 

 cost the county $3,300. This embankment across the valley is 

 built on a water level line, about seven feet above the valley 

 land at the bluff and twenty-five feet above it near the river. 

 It will average perhaps twelve feet above the valley land. There 

 is nothing to protect the embankment but the pavement on top. 

 Should the water rise approximately as high as it did in 1913, the 

 water would pour over the embankment its entire length and under- 

 mine the concrete on the lower side. In order to make this embank- 

 ment flood proof, some sort of an apron must be made on the lower 

 side to prevent the water from cutting under the pavement. This 

 undoubtedly should be done or the present structure is in serious 

 danger. The cost of building a cement apron on the lower side of 

 the embankment would be probably as much as has already been 

 expended upon it, but it certainly seems necessary. Such a struc- 

 ture is far more in danger of destruction than one built on a level 

 with the valley as is the case at Martinsville. 



The grade at Newberry has been rebuilt and the abutments of 

 the small bridges replaced. 



The town of Worthington was inundated on its western side by 

 the overflow from Eel River. No houses were washed away, but a 

 great many were badly flooded, ruining much furniture and house- 

 hold goods, thus causing considerable personal loss. The loss of 

 the C. & E. I. R. R. was about $1,200, where the flood waters broke 

 over the embankment allowing the western part of Worthington to 

 be flooded. The C. & E. I. R. R. was injured at two other places 

 in Greene County. About one-half mile of track and grade was 

 taken out near where it crosses Lattas Creek, northwest of Bloom- 

 field, and below the river bridge north of Newberry over a mile of 

 track and trestle was taken out. The estimated cost of repairing 

 these two places is $7,000. 



The I. C. R. R. with its long stretch of high trestle work across 

 the valley west of Bloomfield received but little damage. (See 

 Figures 26 and 27.) An estimate of $2,000 would be rather high. 

 But the Monon Branch received severe damage. The estimated 

 cost of repairing it is $7,000, and it is yet in a very bad condition. 



The total estimated expenditure for all the structures in Greene 

 County and the repair work is $57,200. 



Daviess County itself sustained but little loss in the White 

 River region. A bridge in Washington Township which had not 

 been completed was injured some, and the loss fell on the Vincennes 



