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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
December 6, 2004
When engineers presented Swalley Irrigation District Manager Jan Lee with their plans to pipe the first 5.1 miles of the Swalley Canal, they told her there was one problem: When the pipe ended, water would shoot several feet at a dangerously fast speed, unless something was done to slow it....