Photograph of Elk City resevoir after a flood. It shows severe outting on backslope of dam. This dam overtopped its entire length before it broke. This picture gives an idea of the amount of water that was flowing over the dam before its break. This flood was caused by a six inch rain that fell in one night, three inches of which fell in 45 minutes. OK-5137.

Photograph of a spreader ditch with masonry spreaders torn out by flood waters. Picture taken shortly after six inch rain fell in one night. Notice gullying in spreader and how the water flows out of the banks fo the ditch. OK-5142.

Photograph of flood damage to a spreader ditch. Shows some bermuda grass stripping still in place and shows overfall at masonry spreader. Taken shortly aftersix inch rain fall in one night. OK-5136.

Photograph of sweet clover used as gully control planting. Chickasha Project, Purcell Camp.

Photograph of Perry Collum, tenant on the J. J. Thomas Farm, holding bur clover.

Photograph of Boyce Dilliard looking at vetch on the H. H. Dilliard farm.

Photograph of the Washita River near Davis, OK. See OK-10-395. Davis, OK in the background. OK-10-396.

Photograph of flood damage to a spreader ditch. Shows masonry spreaders torn completely out by flood waters. Taken shortly after a six inch rain in one night. OK-5135.

Photograph of severe sheet and slight gully erosion on an unterraced field after a heavy rain. Notice how all the soil which has been loosened by the plow was taken out of the channel at the bottom of the drainage, and how the small gullies in general followed the direction of the lister plow furrows up and down the slope. OK-5154.

Photograph of M.D. Gamble, Keith Vaughan and George Enaminger discussing needed concrete liner ditch to solve erosion during the planning of an Resource Conservation and Development [RC&D] project. Men are in the Pittsburg County Conservation District. Erosion is in the Vo-Tech Center and Low-Rent Housing area.

Photograph of a CCC camp on the western edge of Purcell, Oklahoma, with members engaged in woodworking. OK-6445.

Photograph of Edward Cooper, age 9, and his dog head for home with a mass of bass and freshwater drum fish caught from a fertilized farm pond belonging to his uncle, George Langston. Pond stocked in the spring of 1945. AR-61, 085.

Photograph of boys fishing at a farm pond with a rock riprapped dam 3 ½ miles east of Lexington, Oklahoma. OK-6440. {riprap: referring to rocks and other materials used to cover and protect shorelines, etc. against various types of water erosion].

Photograph of a woodworking shop at the CCC camp on the west edge.

Photograph of reservoir constructed for a variety of purposes. Stockwater, irrigation, flood control, and all-weather roadway. Covers 78 survice acres and has approx. 230 acre-feet at spillway elevation. 24" drop inlet through fill. Elevation of drop inlet one foot below emergency spillway. 6" pipe through lower part of fill for complete draining. All-weather roadway over top of fill. Riprap for protection of front slope against wave action. Constructed with inmate labor and reformatory-owned equipment. Upstream portion of drop inlet. Inspecting inlet left right, Wayne England, employee of Federal Reformatory staff and Elza C. Bullen, WUC, SCS. Emergency spillway in background. 6" drainage pipe can be noted at right center of picture.

Photograph of Gully after shaping. Following up of OK-1584-12. Area to be sodded to bermuda grass and used for waterway.

Photograph of a gully after shaping. Area to be sodded to bermuda and used for waterway.

Photograph of an area above erosion control dam. A follow-up of OK-1584-6. OK-1584-6B

Photograph of a gully after shaping. A follow-up of OK-1584-12. Area to be sodded to bermuda grass and used for a waterway. OK-1584-12B.

Photograph of a main ditch showing size, depth, etc.

Photograph of sediment drainage. East bank of the Washita [?] River. On the south side of the road. OK-10-397.

Photograph of effects of water concentration through drainage which should have been left in natural sod. Picture taken after a 6 inch rain in one night. This picture shows how the water washed out all the soil loosened by the plow. The plow marks are quite visible. OK-5141.

Photograph of the Paul Peeler farm. A spreader ditch with masonry spreaders torn out by flood waters. The picture was taken after a 6-inch rain-fall in one night. Note the gullying in the spreader and how the water cut the banks of the ditch. OK-5142.

Photograph of 4 of a series of 6. Reservoir constructed for a fourfold purpose. Stockwater, irrigation, flood control and an all-weather roadway. Covers 78 surface acres and has approximate 230 acre-feet at the spillway elevation. 24 inch drop inlet through the fill. Elevation of the drop inlet one foot below emergency spillway. 6 inch pipe through the lower part of the fill is for complete drainage. All-weather roadway is over the top of the fill. Riprap for the protection of the front slope against wave action. Constructed with inmate labor and reformatory-owned equipment. Upstream portion of the drop inlet. Inspecting inlet from left to right: Wayne England, employee of the Federal Reformatory staff, and Elza C. Bullen, Work Unit Conservationist (WUC) and the Soil Conservation Service (SCS). Emergency spillway in the background. 6 inch drainage pipe can be noted at the right center of the picture. OK-77-10.