The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1976 Page: 7 of 35
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'lood control project on fled
leer still lags after S years
31* Banadieui RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 16 DECEMBER 1976
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and Hemphill, and only four of
the proposed structures are in
Hemphill County.
Most of the required
easements have been com-
pleted, including those in
Hemphill County, but a few
details remain to be cleared
further up-stream and these
delays, along with other
A flood control project on the
Peer Creek Watershed,
•h could materially affect
he size and length of the
ridge needed to span that
tream here, has been tied up in
ureaucratic red tape for more
kian five years.
| Red Deer Creek, which
dinarily carries only a small
ream of water, occasionally
comes a raging torrent when
eavy rains fall along its
0-mile path.
The problem is that the Red
Lpr, which rises in Pampa's
entral Park and empties into
Canadian River only fifty
[,j|es away, falls almost a
housand feet in its 50-mile
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span, and drains a sizeable area
of rough terrain.
Two years ago a head rise on
the Red Deer tumbled down
the dry stream bed, cut
through a sand dike near the
Red Deer bridge, and carved a
new channel through a lowland
residential area west of the
Santa Fe tracks, flooding
homes and causing extensive
damage in that area.
1 he flood control project,
which has been in the works for
more than five years, calls for
twenty small flood-control
dams along the major drainage
ravines emptying into the Red
Deer. The creek flows through
three counties, Gray, Roberts
hurdles such as required
clearance from ecology protec-
tion agencies, have long
delayed the start of construc-
tion on the project.
The watershed structures,
when completed, are expected
to control most of the flow of
water along the short but lively
Red Deer, and could greatly
reduce the bridging require-
ments of the stream at
Canadian, where the ordinary
flow of water is now handled
through a single large culvert
near mid-stream under the
emergency low-water crossing
constructed by the County last
year after the bridge was
damaged.
The project is one planned by
the Soil Conservation Service
in cooperation with the
Commissioners Courts of the
three counties involved, and
the landowners on whose
property the flood control dams
would be built.
This simplified map shows the location of twenty flood control structures which
would be built along Red Deer Creek between Pampa and Canadian, if and when the
Red Deer Watershed project is finally given a go-ahead. The numbered sites would
impound small lakes, and would gather drainage from more than 127.000 acres of
land along Red Deer Creek.
ank truck crashed through two
ipans of bridge over year ago
Two spans of Red Deer
bridge collapsed under the
■ight of an oil field truck
hauling a load of salt water on
phe afternoon of August 3 last
bar. and suits and countersuits
lor damages resulting from that
|ccident are stil awaiting court
ettlement.
Hemphill County has filed
uit against E.W. Larkey &
ons of Perry ton, owner of the
uck which crashed through
lie bridge, seeking damages
pr repair of the structure; and
ihe Larkey firm has filed a
unter suit against Hemphill
Cou nty.
The County's interests in the
case are represented by County
Attorney elect F loyd Holder.
The truck which crashed
through the bridge was a 100
barrel capacity tank truck
owned by the Perrvton firm. It
was reportedly hauling a load of
salt water from a drilling
location across the Red Deer.
The accident occurred at
about 2 o'clock on a Sunday
afternoon. The truck cleared
one collapsing span and crashed
through another, dropping the
rear of the truck to the bed of
the river. The driver was
un hurt.
The amount of salt water in
the tank truck, and the weight
of the load, are in dispute.
Sheriff C.H. Wright said at the
time that he had ordered the
truck driver after the accident
not to empty the load, but the
load was dumped and there
appears to be some uncertainty
about who received the
Sheriffs order and who ordered
the salt water dumped.
The bridge was posted at the
time for a maximum load of
50,000 pounds.
i
Wild tillA dlAWA*
Forerunner ot the present ^°"nty .D"?^ng after it was built. A few spans at the
concrete bridge, which was washed ou { m (he present bn ge.
south bank still remain, a few yards downstream
The middle spans of Red Deer Bridge looked like this on a
Sunday afternoon in August a year ago after a heavily loaded
oil field tank truck crashed through to the river bed.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1976, newspaper, December 16, 1976; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136467/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.