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...Dam. Two years ago a small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...floods of 1927, the original dam was washed away, and it has been unrepaired for 14 years. A large artificial pond, which provided bathing and boating facilities as well as farm irrigation, disappeared with the dam...
...town of Grafton Center was naturally pleased with PBH's offer to establish a work camp there, for the restoration of the dam and pond would mean increased real estate and perhaps industrial, business there, on a small scale at least. The town fathers there fore appropriated $1200 to pay for the cost of material. The remaining costs of the project, totalling a little less than $1000, were taken care of by PBH! American Defense, Harvard Group, and the participating students themselves...
...dam itself is nine feet high and 35 feet long. The major portion is constructed of stone, but a concrete facing gives the dam a smooth surface. When the students left the project at the end of the summer, the concrete facing was not quite finished, but is being completed by local workmen...
...dawn to dusk. Last summers camp in New Hampshire required considerably less work, but it was felt that more insure time devoted to educational studies would be more profitable to the campers. Nevertheless, many of the boys helped nearby farmers with their haying as well as worked on the dam itself...