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2d session 30 June 78th Congress acre-feet acres Ana River Basin bank protection beach erosion breakwater Calaveras River California coast Canyon channel improvements Chief of Engineers Clearing and snagging completion date comprehensive plan Corps of Engineers cost is estimated Creek Stream Creeks channel debris drainage area dredging Federal construction cost feet long feet wide Flood Control Act flood control projects flood control reservoir flood damages estimated Harbor Act harbors for light-draft House Document investigation irrigation June 1954 prices Lake levee repair light-draft vessels located Napa River overflow area plan of improvement prevent flood damages project design flood project was authorized recreational report is indefinite River and Harbor River and Tributaries Russian River Sacramento River Sacramento-San Joaquin Salinas River San Francisco Bay San Joaquin River San Pablo Bay Santa Ana River Santa Cruz square miles Stockton survey report Total Federal construction Truckee River Tulare Lake Valley
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Page 6 - Act shall be expended on the construction of any project until States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agencies have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 69 - ... navigable streams and tributaries thereof when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable in the interest of flood control: Provided, That not more than $25,000 shall be allotted for this purpose for any single tributary from the appropriations for any one fiscal year.
Page 44 - Preliminary estimates indicate that local interests' cost for the development will be $72 million. The annual cost for maintenance, operation, and replacements is not available. Status of local cooperation. — A contract was negotiated in 1949 with local interests, comprising the city and county of San Francisco and the Turlock and Modesto Irrigation Districts, whereby "they agreed to provide...
Page 2 - Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with States, their political subdivisions, and localities thereof...
Page 8 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to prescribe regulations for the use of storage allocated for flood control or navigation at all reservoirs constructed wholly or In part with Federal funds provided on the basis of such purposes, and the operation of any such project shall be in accordance with such regulations...
Page 7 - ... the policy of the United States to assist in the construction, but not the maintenance, of works for the improvement and protection against erosion by waves and currents of the shores of the United States that are owned by States, municipalities, or other political subdivisions : Provided.
Page 34 - River (shallow draft channel) This project provides for a channel 10 feet deep at mean lower low water and 150 to 200 feet wide from the mouth of the Sacramento River to the city of Sacramento, a distance of about 60 miles ; a channel 6 feet deep from Sacramento to Colusa, about 85 miles; a channel 5 feet deep from Colusa to Chico Landing, about 50 miles ; and such depths as are practicable from Chico Landing to Red Bluff, some 52 miles. The estimated total Federal construction cost is $1,127,000...
Page 6 - Provide and maintain at local expense adequate public terminal and transfer facilities open to all on equal terms . d.
Page 2 - Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which have been threatened or destroyed by recent floods, or which may be threatened or destroyed by later floods...
Page 2 - ... recreation, and other potential uses of water. Close cooperation with local interests and the plans of other agencies are fully considered. The resulting Corps of Engineers project, by means of such coordination, becomes a properly designed unit in the comprehensive watershed development.