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 the specific project units enumerated, which include, as near as the segregation can be practically made, all of the works of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District constructed for flood control purposes as distinct from reclamation. It was the intention to limit the expenditure of state funds to the maintenance of "flood control works."

Section 7 of the Reclamation Board Act was amended by chapter 343, Statutes of 1925, to include the following paragraph :

The operation, control and jurisdiction of all weirs on the Sacramento River, so far as The State of California is concerned, shall be under the direction of the Division of Engineering and Irrigation. Department of Public Works.

This has special application to the Sacramento Weir, which is the only one now built

Sutter By-pass 300-hp vertical motor driving a 42-inch pump.

on the project requiring operation, the others functioning automatically. The maintenance of the weir structures is cared for by the Federal Government through the California Debris Commission.

The sum of $150,000 to defray the cost of flood control project maintenance, was provided by chapter 766, Statutes of 1927, "to be expended by and under the direction of the Department of Public Works in the operation and maintenance of such of the flood control works of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District as by law ma.v be imposed on the State of California." This appropriation was expended from September, 1927, to July 1, 1929.

Provision of funds for maintenance and operation for the current biennium is made

Timber toedam to prevent undercutting of levee. in the budget appropriation act of 1929. This act provides as follows :

For maintenance, operation and emergency protection of the Sacramento flood control project, including the purposes contained in section 2, chapter 774. Statutes of 1927—two hundred thousand dollars ($200.000).

Funds for emergency protection and cooperative bank protection work on the Sacramento River system are obtained from the above maintenance appropriation. It is contemplated in the revised project plan, which is the report of the California Debris Commission, dated January 5, 1925, that the cost of maintenance shall be divided practically as is the cost of the project, that is, one-third each to the state, the United States and the local property owners. The state appropriation of $100,000 per year matches an equal amount made available by the Federal Government to the California Debris Commission for maintenance, both including bank protection work. It is presumed that local interests will expend an equal amount, making a total of $300,000 per year. Whether or

Tree current retard or deflector.

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