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    The Miami Conservancy District is a river management agency operating in Southwest Ohio to control flooding of the Great Miami River and its tributaries...
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    Great Dayton Flood (category Miami County, Ohio)
    the Vonderheide Act to enable the formation of conservancy districts. The Miami Conservancy District, which included Dayton and the surrounding area...
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    pioneered by the Miami Conservancy District which built five such dams on tributaries to the Great Miami River to prevent flooding of the Miami Valley and Dayton...
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    the Miami Conservancy District. The legislation was passed by the state and signed into law by Governor James Cox. The Miami Conservancy District withstood...
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    water quality. Following a catastrophic flood in March 1913, the Miami Conservancy District was established in 1914 to build dams, levees and storage areas...
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    1921. This was necessary because of the Miami Valley Flood Control Project and the Miami Conservancy District that was begun after the Great Dayton Flood...
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    Retrieved November 30, 2023. "The History of the MCD: The Conservancy Act". Miami Conservancy District. Archived from the original on March 14, 2007. Retrieved...
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    administrator, and educator. He was the design engineer for the Miami Conservancy District flood control system and oversaw construction. He served as the...
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    known as the Great Dayton Flood, led to the creation of the Miami Conservancy District, a series of dams as well as hydraulic pumps installed around...
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    Great Dayton Flood of 1913, resulting in the creation of the Miami Conservancy District. The river derives its name from its mad, broken, and rapid current...
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