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Kentucky's Yatesville Dam. Started in 1974 and nearly 20% completed, the $66 million, 140-ft.-high dam was justified as a flood-control and recreation project. But it would only reduce the water crest by three inches in danger periods, and nearby recreational facilities are adequate. The dam has largely been a work project for those residents of eastern Kentucky who might otherwise be on welfare...
...York, 16 in.), the West with drenching rains and high winds, the South with frigid temperatures and a score of tornadoes. In Massachusetts, the state's $9 million snow-removal budget is already exhausted. California drought officials traded in their sun visors for umbrellas and began dispensing flood-control information. Motorists in Georgia shuddered at the foreign squeal of back tires spinning...
...Carter's original "hit list" of 32 water projects. The President compromised and restored 14 of the originally doomed projects. Then the House Public Works Appropriations Subcommittee restored 17 of the 18 projects still on Carter's list. (The lone loser: the $1 million Grove Lake, Kans., flood-control project.) Carter met three times with the subcommittee chairman, Alabama Congressman Tom Bevill, 56, with little result. The President then enlisted the aid of House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., who was only able to persuade Bevill to cut small sums from five of the projects...
...with the automobile. Nonetheless, a third and more grandiose plan will be tacked onto the June 8 presidential primary ballot in Los Angeles County. It calls for 232 miles of track-almost exactly the same as the New York subway system-to be built over 30 years along freeways, flood-control channels and existing railroad rights-of-way, and to serve a total of 44 cities. The cost: $5.8 billion by today's official estimate, which puts the project in the same financial league as the Alaska pipeline...
CANAL COMMUTE. The open aqueducts and flood-control canals that snake to and through many cities might be used for commuter boats. Said Le-Roy Louchart of Fair Oaks, Calif.: "I know I for one would enjoy a cruise to the office in the morning...