McMillan on the Brink of Washing Away
A farmer appeals to commissioners as a diverted river threatens to swallow his town.
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McMillan is threatened with destruction, according to the report of Harry Baugh, who appeared before the commissioners and asked for protection. Baugh, a farmer, stated that ten acres further up the river had been diverted in its course and that now it is eating away the bank and threatening the whole town of McMillan. The commissioners will look into the matter and may put in some wing dams to protect the place.
“It is eating away the bank and threatening the whole town of McMillan.”
Riverside erosion remains a persistent struggle for small communities in the Puyallup Valley, where the regulation of the Puyallup River has been a century-long civic battle over land management and public safety.
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