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RIF T; LAKES 1-1-1
The folks at River Lake Country Club in Dallas
are keeping one eye to the stormy spring 7 sky
an the other on construction work which is
designer to prevent another damaging flood on
property wi i, four times in the past, has been
an underwater golf course. The villain Trinity
River anA neighboring CottonwoOd Creek are being
a cut oif by almost a mile of levees.
PULP BESIDE LAKE
The creek feeds a man-made lake which is used
as a source of water for the greens and fairways.
There's been little need for it in the spring
when the river has over-flowed its banks.
ME D. MAN
Greens superintenlent Hager says, since the
club opened in 1956, S floor1 damage has
aproached to-e milion-dOllar-ark. Twice,
Hager has had to completely reseed the greens.
The floon control project is costing the club
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: River lakes], script, April 11, 1960; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc907226/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.