anaheim-gazette 1935-04-11

Today we said we would talk about dams, and while we're getting the keys warmed up on our early American "misspeeler" we'll just start in at the top and work down. Now take Boulder Dam, for instance. I know what you're thinking already. You're saying "What's he talking about Boulder Dam for? I'm never going to build a dam that big." Of course you're not, but maybe you would like to hear some interesting things about it anyway. You're never going to kiss Greta Garbo either, but that doesn't keep you from standing in line at the ticket booth to see John Gilbert perform that osculatory ceremony, does it? Of course Boulder Dam is the gigantic of gigantics so far as engineering feats are concerned. There is concrete enough in it to build an obelisk that would make Washington's monument look like a frost-bliten tomato plant trying to overshadow General Grant up in Sequoia National Park. There are 150 miles of two-inch pipe used in its refrigeration system. It makes us wonder whether they are figuring on using the reservoir as a flood control project or as an ice water stopping place for the tourists coming to California. The whole thing, with accessories, is going to cost around $165,000—000—and look out, we'll be talking only a tramped down depression in your pile of straw, or a cut-out notch in your red wood board dam, or a section removed from the wire mesh that you are using, but don't forget it. A dam without a suitable escape passage for the flood waters isn't much of a dam at all—and will be a lot less than that after a rain or two. Now, we'll go on with the construction. Straw, brush, loose rocks, sand bags, redwood boards, pipe and wire mesh, pipe and old wire rope, any of these are excellent for building check dams, and if their construction is followed up by a planting program, they can be developed into a permanent structure. What should you plant? It naturally depends upon several things. For instance, willows are one of the best types of dam insurance that you can take out; if planted not only above, but below, so that the overfall can't wash away the apron of the dam. Water motive, Australian salt bush, ice plant, eucalyptus trees, have all been found excellent soil holders for use with check dams in guillets out here in California. Where the gully is in open tilled land there is probably no better bet than letting old man devil-grass make himself at home immediately above and below the check dam. You say you don't want devil-grass. Sure you don't. Type of check dam discussed now, or will soon be, in Erosion Demonstrations edited in Ventura, San Luis Santa Cruz counties. Water course on your prober until effectively cured. Study the four drawings are all practical proven farmers can construct, and are expensive to build, hand and determine the courses, because they that will need watching, stuffing off along a bar channels are appearing definite cutting is in some low swale—there where little dams will dollars. Build them low often—and remember that about the low centers the storm waters and prevent out of the side anchorage your engineering operation planting program to in eney. The dams catch plants hold it—is the idea. This is the ninth article of ten, written by Harry Director of the U. S. Service of California. Gazette was chosen to features because, of standing among the agrers of this district. The of the series will discuss as a national program. CLASSIFIED RATE: Five cents the words to the line) for Phone 2414 for want a results. would make Washington's monument look like a frost-blitten tomato plant trying to overshadow General Grant in Sequoia National Park. There are 150 miles of two-inch pipe used in its refrigeration system. It makes us wonder whether they are figuring on using the reservoir as a flood control project or as an ice water stopping place for the tourists coming to California. The whole thing, with accessories, is going to cost around $165,000,000—and look out, we'll be talking erosion in the Colorado River water-shed, at around 137,000 acre-feet per year. The reservoir will have a capacity of 30,500,000 acre-feet of water at the beginning, but old man erosion is going to subtract 137,000 from that figure every year. If you're reaching for a pencil never mind—the answer is around 220. Providing our figures hold water as well as the dam, then the structure will be useless for the purpose for which it was built in a little over 220 years—due to erosion. It cost $165,000,000. Reducing this figure we find that erosion on thus one project is going to cost the American people just $2054,000 a day. How that's that changing theory into hard cash? Now, if you'll excuse our phraseology, we will leap from one dam extreme to the other. The average rancher is of necessity limited to dams of a size that will fit his purse as well as his problem. There are two types that do these things to a considerable degree. First is the check dams. Check dams are built to control gullies and prevent their extension or enlargement. Their most effective use is in the smaller gullies having limited watersheds with consequent smaller runoff. Check dams are not intended to collect large deposits of silt and thereby reclaim the gully, and he'll take a surprising amount of it if you don't watch out. I know a man who used to say "Well, if I've got to fight I don't want it to be with my wife." The same logic says: "You had better farm with a few spots of devil grass and a few check dams than not farm at all, hadn't you?" Soil saving dams are something else again. They are meant to reclaim land as well as prevent the further ravages of erosion, but as a rule they run into money, and are advisable only where the land reclaimed will be of sufficient value to justify the expense. They are of a number of types and can be built of a variety of materials. Where a large gully makes a sharp U-turn the entire gap may be filled and a suitable spillway of non-erosive material built across the peninsula to carry the storm waters. This will not only reclaim the land above, but will straighten the water course. "Missouri" dams are earthen structures with culverts running thru them, connecting with a vertical "riser" or outlet in the slitting basin. They have one big advantage; the outlet and the top of the dam may be raised as the basin slits up, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the structure. Another type is the earth fill dam can take out, if planted not only above but below, so that the overfall can't wash away the apron of the dam. Water motic, Australian salt bush, ice plant, eucalyptus trees, have all been found excellent soil holders for use with check dams in gullies out here in California. Where the gully is in open tillled land there is probably no better bet than letting old man devil-grass make himself at home immediately above and below the check dam. You say you don't want devil-grass. Sure you don't, but you want your farm and so does... The average rancher is of necessity limited to dams of a size that will fit his purse as well as his problem. There are two types that do these things to a considerable degree. First is the check dams. Check dams are built to control gullies and prevent their extension or enlargement. Their most effective use is in the smaller gullies having limited watersheds with consequent smaller runoff. Check dams are not intended to collect large deposits of silt and thereby reclaim land, but are very successful in preventing the little gullies from matriculating into miniature Grand Canyons. The spacing is important. Check or stabilization dams should ordinarily be spaced so that the lowest point in the weir, or "notch" of one dam will be approximately on a level with the base of the next dam above it, in the gully. The placing and construction of such dams near either end of a gully must be done with care. If it is near the head of a gully, it should be placed so that it will prevent further loss of soil by head erosion. If it is near the outlet end of the gully, care must be exercised in making sure that the waters from the weir do not cause undercutting of its foundation and results in its destruction. Check dams may be successfully built of a number of materials, but are usually considered of only semi-permanent nature unless aided by a program of vegetative control. For instance, you have a baby gully presented to you some night by a friendly (?) rain. A few loads of straw properly placed at intervals will probably do the trick—but here let me repeat the golden rule that applies to building all erosion dams from Boulder Canyon size down to junior's engineering on the runoff from the ice box drip. Always—always have a low place in your dam, or a suitable, non-erosive spillway, ready to take care of the water of the next rain. If you do not the flood comes and builds up back of the dam until it starts cutting around the ends, and then it's just too bad. Maybe your weir is Missouri" dams are earthen structures with culverts running thru them, connecting with a vertical "riser" or outlet in the slitting basin. They have one key advantage; the outlet and the top of the dam may be raised as the basin slits up, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the structure. Another type is the earth fill dam with a metal culvert extending through it, the outlet being located just above the flow line of the stream. This is often a "trickey" type of structure and is loaded with potential grief. The water can seep along the line of the culvert and start cutting or the water can start undermining where it emerges from the outlet. In either case you might as well call it a rubber and star over again. The third type is the earth fill dam, with a masonry or concrete spillway either at one side, or thru the middle of the dam. The golden rule of building erosion dams applies here in its cultest sense, and every dollar or hour's time you spend in making sure that your spillway or outlet is large enough, low enough, and long enough, is worth ten times the effort and money as dam insurance. Soil saving dams may also be built of masonry, concrete, loose rock with concrete apron, and logs, but when the former starts spending real money for dams he will find it profitable to hire the services of an engineer to design his structure. Remember that the state law specifies that no dam shall be built without its approval, that will be over twenty-five feet high, or impound more than fifteen-acre-feet of water. Big dams are dynamite if improperly built, and if you don't believe that ask someone who has lived below one when it failed. While soil saving dams are generally expensive, stabilization dams can be afforded and profitably used on the majority of farms in California. Every PIONEER PASSES John A. Goetz, 62, of Santa Ana, who has been a resident of Orange county for the past 42 years, died last Friday following an illness of about two months. type of check dam discussed above is now, or will soon be, in use on the U. S. Erosion Demonstrational Project located in Ventura, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Cruz counties. Every gully or water course on your property is a soil robber until effectively controlled. Study the four drawings shown; they are all practical proven types that any farmer can construct, and none of them are expensive to build. Study your land and determine the natural water courses, because they are the places that will need watching. If banks are stuffing off along a barranca, or if channels are appearing after rains, or definite cutting is in evidence along some low swale—there's the place where little dams will save you real dollars. Build them low. Build them often—and remember the golden rule about the low centers to care for the storm waters and prevent the washing out of the side anchorages. Follow up your engineering operations with a planting program to insure permanency. The dams catch the soil and the plants hold it—is the idea. This is the ninth article in a series of ten, written by Harry E. Reddick. Director of the U. S. Soil Erosion Service of California. The Anaheim Gazette was chosen to present these features because, of its recognized standing among the agricultural readers of this district. The tenth and last of the series will discuss erosion control as a national program. CLASSIFIED ADS RATE: Five cents the line (count five words to the line) for each insertion. Phone 2414 for want ads that bring results. New Sales Plan Gas Appliances Proving Popular An impetus to business recovery and at the same time a boon to families who desire to modernize their homes is being developed through the recently adopted sales plan for new kitchen equipment, announced by local dealers in natural gas appliances in cooperation with Southern Counties Gas Company. Shoppers who have looked with longing eyes at the attractive new models of automatic gas ranges are now laying in large numbers, according to local dealers. 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Check, here, this brief list of assets of Exchange membership. The manager of any Exchange association or district exchange will be glad to discuss them fully with you. CALIFORNIA FRUIT A non-profit, cooperative organization of over 13,000 California and Arizona citrus growers, marketers, the world's most famous brand of fresh fruit. AVOCADO GROWERS FIELD DAY IS SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 19 This year the annual avocado growers field day and farm practice tour for avocado growers will be held in La Habra Valley. Friday, April 19, has been set for the event, according to Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg. In previous years the tour has taken the growers to avocado districts in San Diego and Santa Barbara Counties. The local committee on arrangements for the tour, assisting the Farm Advisor, is R. E. Frantz, chairman, La Habra; A. C. Pickering, Yorko Linda; Wendell Heil, Santa Ana; H. H. Gardner, Orange; A. G. Finley, Tustin; and James Tuftree, Placentia. The purpose of the field day is to visit typical avocado plantings where improved orchard and tree practices may be demonstrated and discussed by specialists. Stops will be made at orchards where pruning methods, irrigation, pest control and regular bearing habits may be observed and studied. According to announcement just issued by the Farm Advisor's office, the tour will start at the Ross Hodson orchard, corner Palm and Central Avenues, about two miles east of La Habra, at 1:30 p.m. At this stop, avocado pruning methods will be demonstrated. The P. J. Weisel orchard will also be visited to see comparative production plots under observation of the Experiment Station; also fertilized plots. Other orchards will be included in the tour to demonstrate pest control and irrigation methods. Among the speakers of the day are Prof. R. W. Hodgson, W. R. Scheonover and Harold E. Wahlberg, University of California; Carter Barrett, Pasadena; Ray Marsh, La Habra; and D. W. 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