40 Years Ago

From the Lewiston Tribune

Aug. 7, 1976

AHSAHKA - "What crack?"

That was the response of David Wilkins, acting plant supervisor for Dworshak Dam, to a Lewiston Morning Tribune query on the status of a small, leaking crack in the dam, first reported in the spring of 1972 after the reservoir was filled.

The crack since has been repaired, or rather, relieved.

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For the third time in less than a week, a storm swept over the Lewiston area, bringing brief, violent downpours of rain at most points in the area and battering hailstones at others.

The storm caused flash-floods that blocked the road from Boggan's Oasis at Troy, Ore., and sent mud and water gushing over U.S. Highway 12 near the foot of Alpowa Grade.