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Excerpt from Remarks of L. L. Robinson, Before House Committee on Water Rights and Drainage, February 17, 1887: In Support of Assembly Bill No. 451, Relating to Impounding Reservoirs for Mining and Other Debris
It is certain that we have in this State many water reservoirs, storing lafge quantities of water, used for municipal, mining, irrigation and other pur poses. Some of these reservoirs are of great capacity -notably, the Bear Valley reservoir in San Bernar 'dino Co., Which Will store 750 million cubic yards of water; the Spring Valley reservoirs, Which supply San Francisco, having a capacity of 20 millione of gallons per day, for two years - With still another one now about being constructed, With more than double that capacity. In Bowie's Hydraulics is a statement showing some of the mining reservoirs, With a storage capacity of about 250 million cubic yards of water; and it would be Within bounds to say, that the water storage of the various reservoirs in California is over million cubic yards. These reservoirs are at all elevations, from 100 feet above tide, to feet or more; and are situated almost Without exception, in the valleys of streams subject to great rainfall.. The dams which form these reservoirs are constructed of earth, rubble, stone, timber and solid masonry. Some of them have been built for 30 years or more, and are still intact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
