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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e in the city of Sacramento, on theKripp farm. This break occurred about the place of the Payne breakof several years ago, and carried away part of the structure used inclosing the latter, the expense of which was more than $50,000. The effect of this break was to cover many acres of land with sand,rendering it valueless for cultivation, and an immense volume of waterpoured into the Yolo Basin, already well filled from overflows occurringfarther up the river. The effect of this vast outflow on the channel ofthe river along the city water front and for some distance below thebreak was very marked; increasing the depth above and shoaling below. Being unable to obtain satisfactory offers from dredge men for closingthe break by contract, the Department hiied a dredge and crew, paying$160 per day of twenty-two hours. The levee required to close the breakwas 1,K00 feet long, 24 feet maximum height, and 16 feet wide on top,and containing 102,489 cubic yards of earth. The estimate of cost was
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70 REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING. $7,687. The actual cost of building the levee, including superintendenceand inspection, was $5,667.64. or 5^ cents per cubic yard. To protect the embankment from wash the face of it along the lowerhalf of its length was revetted with the standard flexible brush mattressadopted by the Department. The cost of the revetment was $2,773.95,making the total cost of the closure ^=8,448.25. One half of the expensewas paid by private and public interests affected, and the other half bythe State. TISDALE WEIR, TEMPORARY REPAIRS. The concrete weir at Tisdale ranch, Sutter County, about six milesbelow Grimes on the Sacramento River, had become undermined by theflood of 1907, and when the high water of 1908 began running over it, aportion of the concrete apron broke off and was carried away. To pre-vent the destruction of the entire structure, a flexible brush mattresswas floated on and suspended like a curtain, over the broken partswhich effectually arreste

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