Battling the inland sea : floods, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkley : University of California Press, 1997Description: xxvii, 395 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

0520214285 (pbk)

DDC classification:

363.3496097945 21

Subject: In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley flooded annually and an inland sea formed during the rainy season, draining slowly away by the summer months. The effort to control the flooding and exploit the rich valley for agriculture has resulted in an intricate, thousand-mile system of levees and drains. This book documents and analyses the process and the widely-diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the valley from floods - a process relevant to riverine areas across the country, many of which experienced serious flooding in 1997

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.3496097945 BAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900071036

Includes bibliographical references and index

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley flooded annually and an inland sea formed during the rainy season, draining slowly away by the summer months. The effort to control the flooding and exploit the rich valley for agriculture has resulted in an intricate, thousand-mile system of levees and drains. This book documents and analyses the process and the widely-diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the valley from floods - a process relevant to riverine areas across the country, many of which experienced serious flooding in 1997

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