Wm B. Richardson 1938 General Account 59 From Porterville Evening Recorder Feb ?, 1937. WALL OF EARTH, SANDBAGS STOPS RIVER TORRENT River Sunday Within Foot of High Water Mark Reached in Last Week's Flood Big Run-Off Pours Down Deer Creek Following Heavy Rain Late Saturday Night The excess water that came down Tule river Sunday, following the heavy rains of the night be- fore, beat in vain at the new dam that blocked the way down the channel washed from the river to Porter slough the week before. The slough carried only a small head of water Sunday morning, while the river, fed by the heavy rains of the previous night, reach- ed to within a foot of the mark made on the night of February 6, last. Along the wall of sandbags that had been placed across the break between river and slough last week, river rose to a height of three feet. If this new channel had not been damned up, a flood riv- al ling the previous torrent would have poured into the slough and swept through Porterville. Deer Creek High Heavy rains Saturday night in the Deer Creek watershed brought that stream up to as high a mark as it reached last week, a foaming tor- rent pouring under the highway bridge south of Porterville all day Sunday. The creek is still carrying an unusually heavy head of water, as is Tule river. Rains Pass Foot Mark Total precipitation in the storm that started Saturday afternoon reached .91 of an inch by this morn- ing, and the rainfall total for the season to date is now 12.04 inches, one of the heaviest winter precipita- tions in the history of the district, to the middle of February. was lifted from its foundation and moved a short distance where it be- came anchored against some trees. While there is quite a bit of damage there resulting from the two floods, none of it will cost very much money to repair. Olive Flooded Again A portion of the Olive street ex- lessen their severity. Likewise, according to Bonine, con- struction of overflow basins will be only a temporary measure because silt in the streams eventually would fill up the basins and necessitate con- struction of new ones. But overflow basins, he continues can be used to advantage along the lower Mississippi in filling up swamp the place where the cement broke away.