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Undercover Work At Dam
Inside The Shelter . . . construction laborer Willard Stultz, 1624 Fourth Ave., works at the intake end of the big concrete tube that carries water from Mosquito Creek to Lake Manawa. Glen Durst, construction technician for the State Conservation…
Weir On Mosquito Creek first In The State Of Iowa
Heavy Equipment . . . is moving thousands of cubic yards of earth from the bed of Mosquito Creek to form the base for a large dam.
Engineer To Send Water Through Lake-Creek Tube - Testing For Defects . . .
Impounded Water . . . helped by upstream rains, backs up behind the Mosquito Creek-Lake Manawa diversion structure.
Creek-Lake Diversion Tried 40 Years Ago - Simple Solution To Water Problem At That Time . . .
(top) An Early Project . . . to divert Mosquito Creek into Lake Manawa was centered around this makeshift creek dam near the eastern edge of the lake. This 40-year-old photo shows John Walton, Charley Keyes and Harry Cook standing on the downstream…
Weather Is Key To Lake Project - Manawa To Get A Summer Drink
Sand Bars . . . add dramatic proof to the current plight of Lake Manawa. Normally, the water would extend past the boardwalk in the foreground.
Creek-Lake Diversion Job May Start Late This Fall
Proposed Diversion Project . . . from Mosquito Creek to Lake Manawa. The dotted line shows the route of the four-foot tube from the diversion structure on the creek to the lake.
Council Bluffs Aerial Views
Aerial photo of Valley View Drive and Mosquito Creek, looking southwest. Interstate 80 is pictured across the upper left, at Franklin Avenue.
Smooth Moving On 375 Bridge
After being closed to traffic since February, the Highway 375 bridge over Mosquito Creek was recently opened thus avoiding a pair of roundabout detours. The smoothly resurfaced bridge with new aluminum rails and new deck cost $190,000.
Today
Today...Mosquito Creek, photographed from the same spot, has taken on a new look. Up stream is the Highway 375 overhead bridge. The high levees and widened creek channel were built by the Corps of Engineers in 1948.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in 1945, Mosquito Creek looked like this from the center of the Wabash Railroad bridge just northeast of the Council Bluffs Airport. The creek was just another meandering stream, flanked with drooping banks and…
Floods - Council Bluffs
Tank farm south of Council Bluffs, flooded by Mosquito Creek
Floods - Council Bluffs
Mosquito Creek in foreground, showing levee break into gasoline tanks farm.
1st Grist Mill
First Grist Mill in Pott County built by S E ... for Pott tribe of Indians, located on Mosquito Creek, afterwards known as Parks Mill. Sketches in 1854. Rebuilt in 1852.
Truck Overturns In Creek Plunge
Overturned truck...at bottom of Mosquito Creek. It skidded off the road which goes under the railroad trestle.
Lake Manawa's Lifeline
Work of laying the big four-foot concrete pipe that will eventually connect Mosquito Creek with Lake Manawa is now under way. Workmen for Larsen Brothers, contractors, lower the second 10-foot long, five-ton section of pipe into place. The project…
C.G.W. Railroad Grade
Photograph of C.G.W. Railroad Grade at Little Mosquito Creek in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Mosquito Creek Overflow
Photograph showing Mosquito Creek overflow. Road to Quick, IA near Council Bluffs.