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LONG SPILLWAY As Fort Worth flood victims eyeO threatening skies and hoped there be no repetition of last spring's nightmarish floods, workmen at the Lake Worth spillway to complete a forty- can eight--inch valve so that the lake be lowered
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four-f4eet below spillway level. The city council authorized 'the release of water yesterday after a delegation 1M$MW of home owners below the spillway flooded the council chamber and pointed out that a six-inch rain)within a short period could send flood waters swirling through their homes again. %floo. Today, th 7F e is m raised and'4 water department employees begin easing the new valve open. MED. MEIN TURNING VALVE Until today, there was no way to lower the lake level. There are several openingsQINthe base of. the spillway, but engineers have found no gates
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a valve being installed at Lake Worth spillway in Fort Worth to avoid flooding.
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