The working river, its dams, and the river as cup and sewer

items 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 — what floated and what never did; every dam; intake and discharge

The working test returns the marsh's answer: the Kankakee at this reach was never a navigation — no keelboat, steamboat, or flatboat traffic, no lock, and no mill-race is attributed to this township's reach in the records reached for this section; the town's mills were prairie mills on the town's ground, carried as businesses, and what never floated is stated as a test, with Campbell's Kankakee survey and Howard named as the test's deeper record. Every dam on the reach: none — no dam stands on the Kankakee along this township in the state drainage or Survey record reached, and the claimed-second-dam negative is included in the same sentence: there is no first. The river's dams stand far downstream, outside this county's record. The river as water supply: the town's water course stands whole in the utilities file — the water-works of 1879 and the modern East and NCEDA plants under their 24 MGD cap — without any river intake anywhere in it; no intake from the Kankakee, past or present, stands in the town's water record as read, and no giving-up of the river as cup ever needed to happen, the system never having drunk from it; the 2024 Preliminary Engineering Report is named as the settler that states the source waters in terms. The river as sewer is banked as a named gap at the utilities file's own strength: the sewer stands at its ordinance line (Ordinance 750 of 1990; the founding itself GAP-NC3-UTIL-1), with no combined-system statement, no federal case or decree, and no receiving-water cleanup state in the record reached — settler the IDEM and town utility records, verified to November 2026.

Sources:

1. This build's Utilities (nc-util-water-1879; nc-util-water-modern; nc-util-sewer, with GAP-NC3-UTIL-1) and Businesses (the mills as businesses).
2. The state drainage and Geological Survey records as reached for this section, November 2026 — no dam on this reach returned; the navigation test's settlers named in the article.