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GREAT FLOOD OF 1944

With a business district constructed over the Salem Branch of Tenmile Creek, a ten-minute downpour could send the creek flooding into the Main Street.   The Upper Tenmile Watershed funded by the U.S. Government and completed in 1958 solved the problem by building seven earthen dams to retain the water from a three-inch storm with one reservoir to be used to supply the pipes leading to the town's residences and businesses.  Click on these pictures to see the magnitude of the flood on the down town business district. Use your browser back arrow to return to this page.