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Title: December 19, 1963 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: December 19, 1963 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 32 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Socha, tion District officials ponder the chief engineer for the water desimilarity between the ill-fated partment, said the Baldwin Hills dam in Baldwin Hills and Scotts dam was of the most advanced Flat Dam above Nevada City. design. Nevada Irrigation District ofBut the now empty reservoir ficials join state and Los Angeles has disclosed a long series of 4 leaders in asking, "Why?" ragged holes in the asphalt inner And Nevada Irrigation District lining.of the dam. These lead in f officials are thankful to note that a straight line to the big break “current expansion of Scotts Flat that released a wall of water to at 8 Dam has brought new and fre= sweep 64 homes from theif"Hilly” ce ee quent inspectiontothe local dam foundationsas the water smashed site. In addition, they point out down into a heavily populated i that expansion at Scotts Flat has (Continued On Page 2) — t the "beefi " of th COMPACTION...Yuba-Bear Project equipment is shown compacting the i racit a tips Tain os raised Scotts Flat Dam last month. A similar, but smaller, dam broke modem requirements. Donation . Saturday in Los Angeles killing three and doing $10 million damage. Built O®ly problemthat plagues con3 i i ‘ : ; struction at Scotts Flat Dam now in 1947, Scotts Flat Dam is being enlarged as part of the Yuba-Bear PrOis finding bedrock under the spillPara de ° ° that water dropping from the yY b 6 p = t App li cations spillway does not undermine the om orrow upa-pear rrojec ! S h F problem that will be solved in (See photos on Page B10) WA : OUg t Or construction and in no way offers Hundreds of Grass Valley school uy Slowed By Weather sy reason fr far forte dam] chien wil parade tomorrow in i y itself, officials emphasize the 80th annual Donation Day the safety of those downstream Led by the bagpipe playing of Grass Valley Elementary School . from Scotts Flat Dam. It isa] Nevada City Councilman Arch ject. , way. Bedrock must be found so foot of the dam. But this is a Superintendent Indeed, there are no fears for. parade. District trustees Monday night es. solid structure built in 1947 under} McPherson, the youngsters will stele ba Eta aioe Ste Construction on the Yuba-Bear force during November was 604. Project was hampered during NoIn a breakdown of progress, vember by more than six inches Ebasco reported: of rain that fell at lower elevaJackson Meadow Dam was 37 tablished the procedure by which . the eyes of state inspectors and all carry a can of food for the tions and by snow depthsthat per cent complete when operathey will choose a superintendent. withthe most modern design. needy. eee, 4 hee ere Sonstaraee Sn Page 35) principal for the district by midBut so was the Baldwin Hills} Also on the line of march, feet. ie April at a meeting Monday night. . reservoir. music of the Nevada Union High An Ebasco Services report to} In the tradition of Nugget Applications forthe post which In fact, the two dams were] School band and the Nevada the Nevada Irrigation District Christmas editions, aGrace will pay $11, 000 the first year : : 2 ble, although. Union Junior High School band noted that the project is now 14] Himes Christmas favorite willap. wj11be Scie laugh Fobrasty somewhat comparable, althoug g Scotts Flat is immense in com-. will add to the festive spirit. per cent complete. , pear in next week's Nugget. at the district office in Hennessy parison with the ill-fated Los} . Mrs. Charles Strom, president ia Construction of acc . ad oy 3 In spite of the Wednesday holi. School. Angeles water storage facility. of the Grass Valley Ladies Relief ' during November was limited to} day, subscribers will receive the . Superintendent Clay Caldwell, . Both were built in 1947, both. Society which annually sponsors . the Fuller Lake road-and those} Nugget by mail on the usual day, . whose retirement notice brought leading to the Dutch Flat and] unless their delivery is at a post up the availability of the comChicago Park powerhouse sites.]. office box in Nevada City or Grass . pjned superintendent -principal Construction operations at Jack. Valley, in which.case the newsjob, will forward the applications son Meadows and Faucherie Dams} paper should be available for their . as soon asthey arrive to members are earth-filled dams, the event, said the line of march The Baldwin Hills reservoir,] willbe Auburn St. fromthe junior covering 19.5 acres, held about} high school to Main St,, thence 900 acre feet of water. Scotts} to Mill St., to Neal St., and ; Flat Dam, covering about 700 back to Auburn St. and the Vetq were suspended for the winter, Christmas reading. of a three-man educator screen~ . acres. holds 26.000 acre feet off erate Memorial Building, with equipment moved to project Deadline for Christmas greet . ing board sothat the committee's . water. i Mees canes a; soni sale sites where work is continuing. ; ings and other advertising will be whic will We catadwlien menor NIN) officials hamen i aul pidods Gi we acid caiae Oe pie dea i ont ee aoe aee § with news deadline . meet in March to weigh the ap-. out that Scotts Flat Dam “was. Veterans Memorial Building this to final crest elevation and up~]. noon Monday. Mc attans: : it stream and downstream slope pro-. _ Look for the féatured Christmas F properly inspected in 1947" when} jy are Lorca ; The screening committee, in. it was built. They then ponder-. Cash donations along the partection is being completed. story, by Grace Himes, talented cluding Sierra College President ingly admit that the Baldwin dam ade route are also accepted to aid Inspite of the hampered oper~ . creator of past Nevada City holi. parol Weaver, Sierra College . also likely received proper in-. the women in filling the food basj average construction ites. F : ; oes HES, “SY CINE day favorite (Continued On Page 2) spection. kets for needy families.