Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley
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In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520214285
ISBN13:9780520214286
Release Date:February 1998
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:420 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"
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