Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 16, 1948
Caption:
NARROW ESCAPE: New Photographer Eck Stanger (right) ruefully appraises his mud-plastered right leg after he stepped off the concrete entrance to the Allen's Creek Drain at its Huron River outlet. What looked like solid ground turned out to be a quicksand of silt, apparently bottomless. Drain Commissioner Ceilon Hill (left) averted possible more serious consequences by pulling Stanger out. The sinkhole is a source of danger to children playing in the area.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 16, 1948
Caption:
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE: Drain Commissioner Ceilon Hill gathers a water sample from an inlet to the Allen's Creek Drain while Sewage Disposal Plant Superintendent C. Preston Witcher looks on. Between the two men is a ladder leading to a manhole in the street above the gloomy, damp underground cavern. Results of the water tests, for pollution, which was evident to the eye, will be known in a few days.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 16, 1948
Caption:
LOW BRIDGE, EVERYBODY DOWN: Four members of the party which made an inspection tour of the Allen's Creek Drain bend low under the arched tile in their passage upstream. Pictured from left to right are Drain Commissioner Ceilon Hill, Sewage Disposal Plant Superintendent C. Preston Witcher, News Reporter Bill Mullendore, and Public Health Engineer Joseph Price. Witcher lugged the box, heavily weighted with water pollution test samples, the entire two miles and managed to preserve the precious bottles despite the soaked cardboard bottom of the box.