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Are the flood waters opened from this dam in the spring?
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A Yes, they go over the spillway when the dam is full or tha
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thl'ough the gates.
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1 Q. I understand theitm.f.•atalld. depth on this map is a hundred and seventy feet?
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A A hundred and seventy feet.
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That is through the spillway?
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A But there are gates from the center of the dam.
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Q. So that you cdan give the J..owut owners their flood waters if they are entitled to them?
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A Yes sir.
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Q You have had occasion to let that water out?
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A We let it out to them in the summer.
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And in the spring?
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A In the two years--
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Q. What was the occasion of your inspecting the dam Monday?
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A I went up there because it was about t!.m.e for the occasional visit and it was prompted a little by Tony's

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_.... that the water was
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eond.JC out there.
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A Fifty years.
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Q let me ask you, as an engineer, this fact, if the water was leaking between the masonry and this conglomerate,
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going under it, would there not be a natural erosion, that it would be an absolute certainty that that dam would go out?
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